Ernest Hemingway Essay, Research Paper

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I. His early life

A. Born in 1899, July 21

B. Oak Park, IL

C. Parents: Clarence and Grace Hemingway

D. Ernest and his sister Marcelline-twins

II. Teenage years

A. Boxing

B. Writing articles for the school newspapers

III. Marriages

A. Hadley Richardson

a. 1921

b. Son John

c. Lived in Paris, France

B. Pauline Pfieffer

a. 1927

b. Lived in Key West, FL (10 years)

c. Sons Patrick and Gregory

C. Martha Gellhorn

a. 1940

b. Lived in Finca Vigia, Cuba

D. Mary Welsh

a. 1946

IV. War years

A. 1918-World War I

a. Italy

b. Affair with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky

B. 1922-Greco-Turkish War

a. Correspondent for Toronto Star

C. 1937-Spanish Civil War

a. War correspondent

D. 1944-World War II

a. Europe: France, Germany

b. “PAPA”

c. Allied liberation of Paris, France

V. Some of his published works

A. “The Sun Also Rises” – 1926

B. “Green Hills of Africa” – 1935

C. “For Whom the Bell Tolls”- 1940

a. Reflection on his safari in Africa

D. “The Old Man and The Sea” – 1952

a. Won the Pulitzer Prize for that novel

VI. Prizes and successes

A. Pulitzer Prize-1953

B. Nobel Prize for literature

C. Guinness Book of Records

VII. 1961 – Committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, July 2nd

A. After being hospitalized and treated with electro-shocks against depression

” He inhaled life, and exhaled words. They were the same to him.”

Michael Hoerman

” All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one, you will feel that it all happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

Ernest Hemingway