The Lost Generation

  • Birth

    Birth
    Enrnest Hemingway is born
  • Highschool

    Highschool
    Hemingway enters highschool, he is not athletic but he did write the yearbook and the newspaper
  • World War 1

    World War 1
    World War 1 broke out
  • Ambulance

    Ambulance
    Hemingway gets rejected by the army because of this bad eye sight. He gets a job for Red Cross and drives the ambulance in Italy
  • World War 1 End

    World War 1 End
    WW1 had finally come to an end and all the men fighting had gone home for this great occasion. It was the war to end all wars and what the world thought to be the last war ever to be fought. This caused great moral in the states on the thought of winning this grusome war.
  • Move to Paris

    Move to Paris
    Hemingway and Hadley move to paris to escape life in America
  • Married

    Married
    Hemingway gets married to Hadley Richardson. First of his four wives.
  • Tariffs Up

    Tariffs Up
    Congress passed the Fordney-McCumber Tariff. This sharply raised the tariff duties to protect the American market for American manufactures. The tariff boosted the economy during the Roaring Twenties.
  • Hemingway and Fitzgerald

    Hemingway and Fitzgerald
    Hemingway began a friendship with a fellow ex-patriot writter F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • The Sun Also Rises

    The Sun Also Rises
    Hemingways first novel ever published was "The Sun Also Rises"
  • Divorce

    Divorce
    Hemingway divorced Hadley and remarried to Pauline Pfeiffer.
  • Moved to Key west

    Moved to Key west
    In 1928 Ernest and Pauline moved to Key west. That same year Clarence Hemingway (Ernest's Father) comitted suicide.
  • Old Man and the Sea

    Old Man and the Sea
    In 1951, Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which would become perhaps his most famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize he had long been denied.
  • Hemingway Nobel Peace Prize

  • Death

    Death
    Hemingway dies on july 2nd, 1961