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Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois.
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Hemingway moved to missouri at the age of 18 to write for the Kansas City Star.
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Hemingway was rejected for the army and became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross.
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Hemingway was wounded in an attack by the Austrians during WWI.
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Hemingway moved to Paris with his new wife Hadley Richardson.
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." -
Heminways first son John "Jack" is born.
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Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, is published.
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Hemingway went through his first divorce, with Hadley Richardson, and married his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer. Pauline had lived with Hemingway for sometime before they admitted their affair and Hemingway divorced Hadley.
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Hemingway's second son, Patrick, is born.
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Hemingway publishes another book, Farewell To Arms.
"All my life I've left at words as though I were seeing them for the first time" -
Ernest's third (and final) son, Gregory, is born
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Hemingway and his wife go on a 10-week African Safari
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Hemingway and Pauline parted ways and he married Martha Glenn. Five years later they were divorced
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Hemingway gets married to his fourth wife, Mary Welsh.
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Hemingway commits suicide because of depression, alcoholism, and multiple physical ailments.
"Everyman's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
