A Biography of Ernest Hemingway

accomplished author (49 short stories and over 10 novels)
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Avid hunter and fisher
Considered a hero of WWI
Committed suicide in Idaho (1961)
Used the experiences of his life to create literary masterpieces during the Modernism Era

in Oak Park, Illinois – upper middle class
Father was a doctor and mother was a singer
He had four sisters and one brother
The community had a large Protestant population
Hemingway about his community: “Wide lawns and narrow minds.”(The Hemingway Resource Center)
Enjoyed hunting and fishing (inspiration for many stories/novels) with his father when his mother wasn’t introducing him to music and literature

female clothes
Worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star (1917)
WWI Ambulance Driver (1918)
Celebrated as a war hero upon his return home
Reporter for Toronto Star (1920)
Married Hadley Richardson and moved to Paris, France (1921)
Father committed suicide in 1929, Ernest does the same in 1961 (Idaho)

Sun Also Rises
A Farewell To Arms
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Old Man and The Sea
To Have and Have Not
A Moveable Feast