Ernest Miller Hemingway

Brailyn FranklinMs. CagleEnglish-4

Hemingway Family RootsBORN PARENTS SIBLINGS HOMETOWN DIED

7-21-1899

Clarence & Grace

Hemingway

Marcelline (sister)Ursula (sister)Madelaine (sister)Carol (sister)Leicester (brother)

Oak Park, Illinois

7-2-1961

Ernest was the second child, and first son, born to Clarence and Grace

Hemingway

Parent InfluenceFather-Clarence Mother-Grace

His mother insisted he learn to play the

celloHis father taught him how to

hunt, fish and camp in the woods when he was 4

He really appreciated and loved nature because he was introduced to it when he was really young. Ernest and his mom didn’t always get along but later in life he appreciated her for it.

High School Accomplishments

BOXING

EducationHigh School Activities

TRACK & FIELD

WATER POLO

FOOTBALL

SCHOOL ORCHESTRA

Attended Oak Park and River Forest High School (1913-1917)

Excelled in English Class

Wrote in & Edited The Trapeze and the Tabula (the school's newspaper and yearbook, this happened because he took a journalism class his junior year and his work was good)

Used pen name Ring Lardner, Jr. in honor of Ring Lardner of the Chicago Tribune whose byline was "Line O'Type”

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1921-1927) 1 child-John Nicanor “Bumby” Hemingway

Pauline Pfeiffer (1927-1940) 2 children-Patrick Hemingway & Gregory Hancock Hemingway

Martha Gellhorn (1940-1945)

Mary Welsh (1946-1961)

The Wives & Children of Ernest Hemingway

Patriotic In:

World War I (1918-1919) Enlisted as Ambulance Driver in

Italy Stationed at the Italian Front &

Fossalta di Piave Received the Italian Silver

Medal of Bravery (he carried an Italian soldier to safety, while he was wounded)

World War II (1939-1945)

Formally charged for a contravention of the Geneva Convention*

Awarded a Bronze Star

Spanish Civil War (1937-1939)

Reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA)

Battle of the Ebro (1938)

World War II (1939-1945) D-Day Landing (1944) Liberation of Paris (1944) Battle of the Bulge (1944) Battle of Hürtgen Forest

(1944-1945)

Military LifePresent for:

*Hemingway became de facto leader to this militia in Rambouillet. He got into a lot of trouble but said he "beat the rap" by claiming that he only offered advice.

Childhood & Literary Jon Dos Passos Eric Edward “Chink” Dorman-Smith Henry Sorrano Villard Gertrude Stein (his mentor) James Joyce Ezra Pound F. Scott Fitzgerald Max Perkins Sherwood Anderson W.B. Yeats Ford Madox Ford Pio Baroja

Pablo Picasso Joan Miro Juan Gris Joris Ivens Carl Sandberg Isak Dinesen Bernard Berenson

Ernest’s Good Friends

Other Close Friends

Ernest’s TravelsCARIBBEA

N

CHICAGO

SPAIN

PARIS TORONTO

CUBA

Ernest’s Homes

Key West Home

1st Apt. Home in Paris

Hotel Ambos Mundos

Finca Vijia

Birthplace in Oak Park

Descriptions of his writing style

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)

Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)

Strong influence on 20th-century fiction

Ernest’s Literary Skills:“The Iceberg Theory”

Awards & Influence simple sentences used his experiences and drew

them out with "what if" scenarios writer of short stories crafted skeletal sentences "multi-focal" photographic

reality Intentional omissions “snapshot" style creates a

collage of images

The Iceberg Theory (also known as the "theory of omission") is the writing style of American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway called his style the iceberg theory: the facts float above water; the supporting structure and symbolism operate out of sight.

Novels(1926) The Torrents of Spring

(1926) The Sun Also Rises

(1929) A Farewell to Arms

(1937) To Have and Have Not

(1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls

(1950) Across the River and Into the Trees

(1952) The Old Man and the Sea

(1970) Islands in the Stream

(1986) The Garden of Eden

(1999) True at First Light

(1923) Three Stories and Ten Poems

(1925) In Our Time

(1927) Men Without Women

(1933) Winner Take Nothing

(1938) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine

Stories

(1961) The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other

Stories

(1969) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the

Spanish Civil War

(1972) The Nick Adams Stories

(1979) 88 Poems

A Few of Ernest’s Most Known Works

Collections

Nonfiction

(1932) Death in the Afternoon

(1935) Green Hills of Africa

(1962) Hemingway, The Wild Years

(1964) A Moveable Feast

(1967) By-Line: Ernest Hemingway

(1970) Ernest Hemingway:

CubReporter

(1985) The Dangerous Summer

(1985) Dateline: Toronto

(1992) The Complete Poems

(2005) Under Kilimanjaro

(1964) A Moveable Feast

(1969) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War

(1970) Islands in the Stream

(1972) The Nick Adams Stories

(1985) The Dangerous Summer

(1986) The Garden of Eden

(1987) The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway

(1999) True at First Light

Some of Ernest’s Literary Work

Posthumous

Hemingway’s Family Tree

The Kansas City StarToronto StarCooperative CommonwealthTransatlantic reviewNorth American Newspaper Alliance (NANA)PM (Picture Magazine)

Who Ernest Wrote for

Relied heavily on the Kansas City Star’s style guide as a foundation for his writing: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”

He had A LOT of injuries from accidents, crashes & bad decisions

Heavy Drinker

Family known for committing suicide(Clarence-father, Ursula-younger sister, Leicester-brother, Margaux-granddaughter, and Ernest)

There are plays, movies, statues, clubs, schools, highways, competitions, and other things named after him

The FBI had opened a file on him during WWII.

Interesting Facts about Ernest Hemingway