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Born in Oak Park, Illinois
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Hemingway is a student athlete who writes and plays football and boxing.
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Hemingway begins World War I as a Red Cross ambulance driver "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime"
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Hemingway suffers injury from Mortar Shells and is hospitalized, where he meets Agnes Von Kurowsky. "All things truly wicked start from innocence."
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Agnes Von Kurowsky leaves Hemingway by letter.
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Hemingway marries his first of four wives, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
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Hemingway publishes his first novel, "The Sun Also Rises".
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Hemingway divorces Elizabeth Hadley and remarries soon afterward. "a man can be destroyed but not defeated."
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Hemingway's father commits suicide "Every man'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."
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Hemingway publishes his first full length play and first 49 short stories of his career. "I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me."
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Hemingway marries his fourth and final wife, Mary Welsh.
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Hemingway's mother, Grace, dies of natural causes. "
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Hemingway publishes the old man and the sea which brings him a pulitzer Prize. "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
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Suffering from alcholism and depression Hemingway commits suicide with a shotgun in his home in Ketchum, Idaho. He recieves a Catholic Burial by the church.
