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Ernest Miller Hemingway's birth
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago -
High school
From 1913 until 1917, Hemingway attended Oak Park and River Forest High School. -
Hemingway's first piece
Hemingway's first piece, published in January 1916, was about a local performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra -
Joined WWI
Early in 1918, Hemingway responded to a Red Cross recruitment effort in Kansas City and signed on to become an ambulance driver in Italy. -
Felling in love
While recuperating, he fell in love, for the first time, with Agnes von Kurowsky, a Red Cross nurse seven years his senior. By the time of his release and return to the United States in January 1919, Agnes and Hemingway had decided to marry within a few months in America. But it end up with Kurowsky's rejection. -
Return home
Hemingway returned home early in 1919 to a time of readjustment. -
Hadley❤Hemingway
Hadley, red-haired, with a "nurturing instinct", was eight years older than Hemingway. The two corresponded for a few months and then decided to marry and travel to Europe. They wanted to visit Rome, but then were convinced to visit Paris instead. They were married on September 3, 1921; two months later, Hemingway was hired as foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, and the couple left for Paris -
First book
During their absence, Hemingway's first book punished, Three Stories and Ten Poems -
First son
Hemingway's first son, John Hadley Nicanor was born -
The sun also rises
The Sun Also Rises, published in October,1926.
It reflected the post-war expatriate generation, received good reviews, and is "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" -
Divorce
In early 1926, Hadley became aware of his affair with Pfeiffer, who came to Pamplona with them that July. On their return to Paris, Hadley asked for a separation; in November she formally requested a divorce. The couple were divorced in January 1927, and Hemingway married Pfeiffer in May -
Men Without Womenand and Fifty Grand
Men Without Women, which was published in October 1927, and included his boxing story "Fifty Grand". -
Suicide of Hemingway's father
In the winter, he was in New York with Bumby, about to board a train to Florida, when he received a cable telling him that his father had killed himself. -
Second son
Hemingway and Pauline traveled to Kansas City, where their son Patrick was born on June 28, 1928. -
Farewall to Arms
The completed novel was published on September 27 -
Third son
His third son, Gregory Hancock Hemingway, was born a year later on November 12, 1931, in Kansas City. -
Spanish civil War
In 1937, Hemingway agreed to report on the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), arriving in Spain in March with Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. -
The most famous novel
Gellhorn inspired him to write his most famous novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which he started in March 1939 and finished in July 1940. It was published in October 1940. Consistent with his pattern of moving around while working on a manuscript, he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls in Cuba, Wyoming, and Sun Valley. -
3rd Marriage
Hemingway and Martha were married on November 20, 1940, in Cheyenne, Wyoming -
Fourth Marriage.
In 1946 he married Mary, who had an ectopic pregnancy five months later. -
WWII
Hemingway was a correspondent in battle ground. In 1947, Hemingway was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery during World War II. -
Across the River and into the Trees and failure.
In 1948, Hemingway and Mary traveled to Europe, staying in Venice for several months. While there, Hemingway fell in love with the then 19-year-old Adriana Ivancich. The platonic love affair inspired the novel Across the River and into the Trees, written in Cuba during a time of strife with Mary, and published in 1950 to negative reviews. -
The Old Man and the Sea and Pulitzer Prize
The following year, furious at the critical reception of Across the River and Into the Trees, he wrote the draft of The Old Man and the Sea in eight weeks, saying that it was "the best I can write ever for all of my life". The Old Man and the Sea became a book-of-the-month selection, made Hemingway an international celebrity, and won the Pulitzer Prize in May 1952, a month before he left for his second trip to Africa. -
Injured over Africa
In 1954, while in Africa, Hemingway was almost fatally injured in two successive plane crashes, which probably cause his suicide. -
Nobel Prize
In October 1954, Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature. -
The legend's end
In the early morning hours of July 2, 1961, Hemingway "quite deliberately" shot himself with his favorite shotgun.