Through the life of Hemingway

Mr. Ernest Hemingway was born

Jul 21, 1899

Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21st, 1899 in Oak Park Illinois. He was the first son, but second child to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and Grace Hall-Hemingway.

Hemingway responded to a Red Cross recruitment effort in Kansas City and signed on to be an ambulence driver in Italy during WWI, and drove them for two months until he was injured.

Jan 12, 1918

"Before you talk, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticise, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try."
-Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway married Hadley and "headed off to Paris".

Sep 3, 1921

With his wife Hadley, Hemingway first visited the Festival Lof San Femin in Pamplone, spain where he became fascinated by bullfighting.

Apr 9, 1923

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary." -Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway published: The Sun Also Rises

Oct 1, 1926

"I always try to write on teh principal of the iceberg-There is seven eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is teh part that doesn't show."
-Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway and Hadley got divorced

Jan 9, 1927

Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer

May 9, 1927

Hemingway moved to Cuba

Mar 3, 1939

Hemingway published: For whom the Bell Tolls

Apr 4, 1940

Hemingway published: A farewell to Arms

Jul 4, 1949

Hemingway Published: The Old Man and The Sea

Apr 4, 1951

Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Apr 9, 1953

Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Jun 11, 1954