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Hemingway was born as Ernest Miller Hemingway in Oak Park, Illinois. (Kramer 180)
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Ernest Heming started being a reporter for the Kansas City Star when he was 18. He stopped working there less than a year later on April 30, 1918. (Paul)
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When Hemingway was 18, he drove an ambulance for the Red Cross in World War I. However, about 6 weeks into it, he was severly injured from a mortar shell and had to spend a large amount of time in the hospital. (The Hemingway Resource Center)
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After Hemingway was mostly healed from his injuries, he decided to move to Chicago. There, he started writing for the Toronto Star Weekly. (The Hemingway Resource Center) -
When Hemingway was 22, he married his first wife, Hadley. Three months later, they moved to Paris. (Sandison 52)
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Two years after moving to Paris, Hemingway published his first work: Three Stories and Ten Poems. (Kramer 180)
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He published a story that described some of his background when he lived as a youth in Michigan called In Our Time. (Kramer 180)
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In 1926, Hemingway published The Run Also Rises. It turned out to be one of his most famous works. (Kramer 180)
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Hemingway and Hadley weren't getting along, and in 1927 they divorced. Soon after, Hemingway got remarried to Pauline Pfeiffer and moved to Key West, Florida with her a year later. (The Hemingway Resource Center) -
A Farewell to Arms was a novel published by Ernest Hemingway in 1929 depicting a portion of WWI. It is often considered one of the best novels to be published at that time. (The Hemingway Resource Center)
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He published two collections of short stories during this time period. (Kramer 180)
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Using a loan from Pauline's Uncle Gus, Hemingway and his wife went on a safari in Africa. That trip was the inspiration for his nonfiction publication, Green Hills of Africa that came out in 1935. (Kramer 180) (The Hemingway Resource Center)
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A famous novel that Hemingway published in 1940 was called For Whom the Bell Tolls. Because he was in Spain at the time, he decided to write the novel in a Spanish war setting. Besides selling over 500,000 copies in only 6 months, the Pulitzer Prize committee declared it the novel of the year. (The Hemingway Resource Center) (Kramer 180) -
During the 1940's, Ernest Hemingway was a very famous author and renowned throughout the US. He was said to be "famous for colorful lifestyle and extreme concern with presenting a tough, masculine image." (Kramer 180)
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The 1950's was the period of time in Hemingway's life where he began to decline. He was sick often, including several mental issues. He also drank a considerable amount which contributed to his shortened his life. (The Hemingway Resource Center) -
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One of Ernest Hemingway's most famous novels was called The Old Man and the Sea. It sold over 5 million copies and in a short period of time. (The Hemingway Resource Center) -
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Even with his wanning health, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October of 1954. (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum) -
Much to his wife's horror and America's shock, Enrest Hemingway tragically comitted suicide in the early morning of July 2, 1961 with a shotgun. (Kramer 180)
