1. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1899-1961

2.  2nd
of 6 children
 Parents: father – doctor
mother – opera singer
and music teacher
 Raised in Oak Park, a suburb of
Chicago

3. In high school, Hemingway wrote for
the school newspaper and edited
the school literary journal.
After graduation, he worked for 6
months as a newspaper reporter
for the Kansas City Star.

4. In June 1918, Hemingway
volunteered to be an ambulance
driver for the Red Cross and was
assigned to Italy, where he was
seriously wounded.

5. After recovering from his wounds,
Hemingway returned home and
began to write.

6. Everything he wrote was rejected
by publishers.
After getting married in 1921, he
and his wife sailed to Paris; a
friend had given him letters of
introduction to:

7. Gertrude Stein, author and art
collector,

8. Sylvia Beach, owner of Shakespeare
& Company – the famous Paris
bookstore,

9. Ezra Pound – poet, literary critic, and
editor,

10. and they introduced him to:
F. Scott Fitzgerald,

11. Sara and Gerald Murphy,

12. Pablo Picasso,

13. and James Joyce.

14. All it then took, was for Gertrude
Stein to taunt Hemingway one day,
saying, “You are all a Lost
Generation.”
The name stuck!

15. Hemingway’s first successful novel,
The Sun Also Rises (1926), is
based on his visits to the Fiesta de
San Fermin.

16. Hemingway’s experiences being
wounded in World War I on the
Italian front led to his writing A
Farewell to Arms (1929).

17. An African safari, with his second
wife, Pauline, led to the writing of
Green Hills of Africa and “The
Snows of Kilimanjaro”

18. Hemingway reported on the
Spanish Civil War (1936-1938),
together with his third wife, Martha
Gellhorn.

19. Hemingway’s advice to young writers
was, “Always write what you know.”
In 1939, what many consider his
greatest novel was published: For
Whom the Bell Tolls, about the
Spanish Civil War.

20. Hemingway received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1954 for Old
Man and the Sea.

21. Hemingway lived in fascinating
places: Cuba

22. Key West, Florida

23. Sun Valley, Idaho

24. Hemingway’s writing has been
admired around the world and his
works have been translated into
many languages.
Two weeks before his 61st
birthday,
Hemingway committed suicide.