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The Incredible Life of Ernest Hemingway: Author, Drunkard, War Hero

The Incredible Life of Ernest Hemingway: Author, Drunkard, War Hero. Nick Watkins Nick Welki Danielle Greenwald Britanny Lippert. (NW)^2+BL(DG). After graduating from high school in 1917, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star .

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The Incredible Life of Ernest Hemingway: Author, Drunkard, War Hero

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  1. The Incredible Life of Ernest Hemingway: Author, Drunkard, War Hero Nick Watkins Nick Welki Danielle Greenwald BritannyLippert (NW)^2+BL(DG)

  2. After graduating from high school in 1917, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. • He left the paper to travel to Europe and tried to enlist in the U.S. Army. • Wounded in Italy while part of the Ambulance Corps. • Returned home and started working for the Toronto Star newspaper as a freelance writer for the Weekly Star. • Married Hadley Richardson in 1921. • Accepted a position as a European correspondent in for the Toronto Daily Star that same year. Kansas City Star

  3. Moved to Paris with Hadley Richardson to cover the Greco-Turkish War. • A letter of recommendation from Sherwood Anderson helped him meet some of Paris’s prominent writers and artists. • While in Paris, he wrote political articles about the Geneva Conference, the Greco-Turkish War, the Luasanne Conference, and the post war convention in the Ruhr Valley. • He also wrote lifestyle columns in addition to political articles. • Hadley found out she was pregnant and Hemingway wanted the baby to be born in North America. • They moved to Toronto in 1923 and waited for the baby to be born. • On October 10, 1923 John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway was born and in January of 1924, the family headed back to Paris.

  4. Until 1925, Hemingway had his short stories published in Maddox Ford’s literary magazine, The Transatlantic Review. • In 1925, he published In Our Time. • In 1926, he published Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises. • In 1927, he published Men Without Women. • Also in 1927, he married Pauline Pfieffer after he divorced Hadley. • In 1928, Hemingway and Pfieffer moved to Key West, Florida. • While in Key West, he developed an interest in fishing and big game hunting. • In 1928, Hemingway’s son Patrick was born as well. • In December of 1928, Hemingway learned of his father’s suicide.

  5. Despite personal troubles, Hemingway continued to work on A Farewell to Arms and finished it in January of 1929. • A Farewell to Arms was published in September of 1929. • In 1931, Gregory, Hemingway’s third son, was born. • Also in 1931, Hemingway bought a house in Key West and lived there for ten years. • Hemingway’s nonfiction book, Death in the Afternoon was published in 1932 after Ernest made several trips to Spain. • In 1933, her returned to fiction and published a collection of short stories called Winner Take Nothing.

  6. In 1933, Hemingway, Pauline, and Charles Johnson traveled to Africa. • They spent three months hunting big game in Africa and Hemingway gathered material for his writing. • In 1935, Green Hills of Africa was published. • Also inspired by Hemingway’s trip to Africa, two short stories, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” were published.

  7. In 1937, Hemingway traveled to Spain as a war correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance to cover the Spanish Civil War • This trip brought out conflicts within the family since Hemingway supported the communist loyalists while Pauline supported the fascist Franco movement. • In 1940, Hemingway and Pauline divorced, mostly because of Hemingway’s four-year-long affair with Martha Gellhorn. • In November of 1940, Hemingway and Gellhorn got married. • They moved to a large house outside of Havana in Cuba and called it Finca Vigia . • Hemingway’s experiences during the civil war led to the book, For Whom the Bell Tolls, as well as a drama, “The Fifth Column” and other short stories.

  8. Hemingway partook in the Second World War, staying on a ship that was protecting the home front. • After the war, he moved to Italy which helped him with his next work, Across the River and Into the Trees • He was divorced yet again and his third wife appeared in the story as a wife.

  9. Works cited • “Ernest Hemingway Biography.” Hemingway Biography. http://www.lostgeneration.com/childhood.htm. (25 May 2009). • “Timeline of Ernest Hemingway’s life.” Hemingway Timeline. http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/kdavis/timeline.htm. (25 May 2009). • “Ernest Hemingway Biography.” Hemingway Biography. http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Hemingway_Ernest.html. (25 May 2009). • “safari” Hemingway Hunting. http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/africa.html. (25 May 2009). • Pictures http://bilingual.sulekha.com/mstore/bilingual/albums/default/Cuba_FincalaVigliaHemingway460.jpg http://iceculture.com/siteimages/toronto_star_logo.gif http://katehunt.com/reviews/kcstar/kansas-city-star-logo-175.jpg

  10. He started and abandoned a novel called Islands in the Stream. • A section of the novel got published and was titled The Old Man and the Sea. • The novel helped Hemingway win the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in literature a year later.

  11. Unfortunately, Hemingway was victim of two plane crashes. • These crashes injured the majority of his body. The injuries caused him to temporarily lose vision in his left eye and hearing in his left ear. • The second crash gave him second degree burns and made him lose his mind. • The bright side was that he found manuscripts in a basement which would be used for his novel, A Moveable Feast.

  12. Hemingway suffered from severe paranoia. He was afraid that the FBI would come after him if Cuba fell to the Russians. • He received treatment for his high blood pressure, liver problems, depression, and continued paranoia in Ketchum, Idaho. • It turns out that the FBI was watching Hemingway for all of his activities that took place in Cuba. It looks like he was right. • He attempted suicide in 1961 but failed and received more treatment. He did commit suicide on July 2, 1961 from a shotgun blast to his head.

  13. Hemingway’s works though have been read and revered after his death. In 2001, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms were considered in the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. His novels are still being read and analyzed to this day. His “code hero” has contributed to the English literature.

  14. Work Cited "Ernest Hemingway biography." BiographyBase. Internet Explorer. 25 May 2009 <http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Hemingway_Ernest.html>.

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