A Biography of Ernest Hemingway

1. A Biography of Ernest Hemingway By: Mr. Elias class: 21st Century Tech A Portrait of Hemingway Table of Contents

2. Table of Contents • A Biography of Ernest Hemingway • Table of Contents • Who Is Ernest Hemingway? • Hemingway’s Personal Life (1) • Hemingway’s Personal Life (2) • Hemingway’s Professional Life (1) • Hemingway’s Professional Life (2) • My Opinion of Hemingway • Bibliography

3. Who Is Ernest Hemingway? • Born into a strict, Protestant family • Famous and well 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 WWI Photo Table of Contents

4. Hemingway’s Personal Life • Born Ernest Miller Hemingway on July 21st, 1899 • Grew up 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 Table of Contents

5. Hemingway’s Personal Life (cont.) • Rumored that his mother often dressed him in 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) Picnic Fishing Table of Contents

6. Hemingway’s Professional Life • Wrote forty-nine short stories and published six best-selling novels: • The 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 Ernest Working Table of Contents

7. Hemingway’s Professional Life (cont.) • Popular characters in his works: soldiers, hunters, bullfighters, and primitive people. • Themes of his work: Courageous and honest people losing hope in a modern, hectic society • Possibly reflects his own outlook concerning his place in the world • His writing is very dry and descriptive with little plot – draws heavily from past experience • His alcoholism and depression contributed to his eventual suicide • He shot himself in Ketchum, Idaho (1961) Table of Contents Hemingway Hospitalized

8. My Opinion of Hemingway • Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorite authors • I enjoy reading his stories for two reasons: • He includes good morals at the end of the story • I find the places he writes about very interesting • Before the project, I didn’t know much about his personal life/childhood • Its strange to think that someone so brilliant would commit suicide

9. Bibliography • Nobel Peace Prize Organization • The Hemingway Resource Center • Dr. Paul P. Reuben The End Table of Contents