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Birth
Father: Clarence Hemingway (1871-1928)
Mother: Grace Hall Hemingway (1872-1951)
Sister: Marcelline Hemingway (1898-1963)
Sister: Ursula Hemingway (1902-1966)
Sister: Carol Hemingway (1911-2002)
Brother: Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982) -
Reporter for the Kansas City Star
The newspaper's guidelines influence his writing style for the rest of his career, short sentences and short first paragraphs -
WWI Ambulance Driver
Leaves the newspaper and joins the US Army, the Army rejects him because of poor eyesight so he volunteered as a driver for the Red Cross Ambulance Corps -
Wounded in Battle
While passing out supplies to soldiers in Italy, Hemingway is seriously injured by a trench mortar and machine gun. The blast leaves shell fragments in his legs. -
Agnes and A Farewell to Arms
While recuperating in a hospital in Italy, Hemingway falls in love with an American Nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway returns to the US, Agnes writes him soon after saying that she has fallen in love with someone else. Their romance inspired the relationship in A Farewell to Arms -
First Marriage
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. Hemingway and Richardson had one son named John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway -
Paris!
Hemingway goes to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, there he falls into a circle of writers that are regarded as part of the "Lost Generation" -
First Publication
Hemingway publishes his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems -
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest's first novel is published, it is critically acclaimed and commercially successful -
Divorce
Hemingway divorces Elizabeth Hadley -
Second Marriage
Hemingway marries Pauline Pfeiffer a month later, they have a children named Patrick and Gregory Hemingway -
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms is published, makes Hemingway financially independent -
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Quick Summary
1933 - African Safari
1937 - Reports from Spanish Civil War
1938 - Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories -
Divorce and Remarriage, Again
Divorces Pauline on 4 of November, less than three weeks later he marries the journalist Martha Gellhorn -
Third Divorce
Ernest Hemingway divorces Martha Gellhorn -
Fourth Marriage
Ernest marries Mary Welsh -
The Old Man and the Sea
The novella The Old Man and the Sea is published in Life magazine. The story of the fisherman brings Hemingway commercial success -
Pulitzer Prize
Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea -
Nobel Prize
Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature -
Suicide
Ernest Hemingway, suffering from depression, alcoholism and plenty of physical ailments. He commits suicide with a shotgun in his home in Ketchum, Idaho
