Ernest Hemingway

By: Jamie Tennesen, Corey Bond, Josh Carr, Ed Roslasky, Brianna Pierro, and

Kellyann McClain

• Born: Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899• In WWI (after high school) he became an

ambulance driver for the Italian Army• Was seriously injured in 1918 and returned home• Became reporter for Canadian and American

newspapers and was soon sent back to Europecover events like the Greek Revolution

Early Life

• Married in 1922 to Hadley Richardson• Moved to Paris and worked as a foreign correspondent• Divorced Hadley in 1927 and married Pauline

Pfeiffer• Divorced after he returned from the

Spanish Civil War• Martha Gellhorn is his third wife-married

in 1940• He met Mary Welsh in London during WWI

and divorced Martha

Love Life

• He fell in love with a nurse (Agnes von Kurowsky) as he was away at war, as he proposed his love for her, she rejected him, this is the reason that he abandoned his future relationships before they abandoned him

• He believed that his life was a mess when he was awake so he enjoyed sleeping

to get away from reality

Love Life (Extended)

• Hemingway began his career in high school when he began writing for his school newspaper about sportso Used the pen name Ring Larder, Jr. in high school.

• Excelled in English class• Also wrote for the yearbook• graduated high school in 1917

Education

• Did not go to college• began writing career as soon as high school was over• First writing job was for the Kansas City Star for a

short six months• Got the job because his uncle Tyler was a

friend of the chief editorial writer of the paper

• The papers style of writing guided him to write in short declarative statements that he is now known for.

Education (continued)

• bullfightingo Named his son after a famous matador he admired

• deep-sea fishingo inspired his novels The Big Two-Hearted River & The Old Man

and The Sea

• hunting & fishing • Reading & Writing • sports such as water basketball, football and

track and field.

Hobbies & interests

• Hemingway’s first major work was, The Sun Also Rises (1926)

• His injuries in WW1 influenced his writings in A Farewell to Arms (1929)

• He also wrote The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938), and one of his most common pieces The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Works

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953• Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954• A praised modernist• Influenced many writers• An asteroid discovered by the Soviet Union was

named after him

Successes

• Went on a safari to Africa in 1952-was almost killed in two plane crashes

• Was left in pain and ill-health for the rest of his life

• Moved to Idaho in 1959• Committed suicide in the summer of 1961

Death