An introduction to the author - I use it with GCSE students when teaching 'The Old Man and the Sea'

1. Ernest Hemingway
1899 - 1961

3. Born in Illinois
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21 July 1899

4. Parents
Grace – religious, musical
Clarence - outdoorsman

5. Hemingway’s Childhood

6. Reporter – birth of a style

7. WW1 – Red cross in Italy
Weak left eye
Rejected for military service
Wounded
‘A Farewell to Arms’

8. •Cruelty
•Stupidity of war
•Materialism
•Quest for power
•The value of enduring

9. Paris / Spain- 1920’s
•Foreign correspondent
•Literary friends
•Pamplona bullfights

11. Florida & Havana 1928
•Deep sea fishing
•Father’s suicide 1932
•Trips to Cuba & Africa

13. •Spanish civil war 1938
•Moved to Cuba in 1939
•WW2 US Navy Spotter

14. 1952 – The Old Man and the Sea
•Reputation restored
•Pulitzer prize 1953
•Nobel Prize 1954

15. 1959 – Declining Health
•Diabetes
•High blood pressure
•Mental depression
•Electric shock therapy

16. nd
2 July 1961 – Suicide