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Ernest Miller Hemingway ( 1899 - 1961 )  Category ( Writers ) [suggest a correction]
 

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois near Chicago. He was one of six children born to two parents with a profound desire to teach their children values and love for the creative arts. Hemingway’s mother loved the arts and she passed on that love to her children taking time to teach them about music and to appreciate the opera and art galleries. .

Hemingway’s father taught his children to love the great outdoors where hunting and fishing were favorite pastimes. When Ernest Hemingway was only a boy, Teddy Roosevelt showed an interest in Hemingway on an African safari big game hunting excursion. This expedition would later be documented in the Hemingway writings and provided the initial platform for Hemingway’s love of the big game hunts. .

In 1928, Ernest Hemingway’s father committed suicide and it would prove to lay the groundwork for history to repeat itself. The legacy of suicide would later claim two of Hemingway’s siblings, Ursula and Leicester before claiming a life closer to home.

Ernest Hemingway gave himself the nickname of "Papa" at a young age. He married four times and it was believed that he had several extra-marital affairs. He didn’t attend college but instead chose to join The Kansas City Star as a reporter before World War I..

Hemingway escaped a more combative position in World War I because he supposedly failed the vision portion of the medical exam but it didn’t keep him from helping out during the war. He joined the Red Cross and off to war he went with his goal always in mind. He wanted to get as close to the front lines of war as possible.

Ernest met and fell in love with his first wife while working with the Red Cross during the war. The plan was that she would return with him to the United States after the war but plans changed when she met an Italian officer. A Farewell to Arms is said to be one of the fictionalized works that developed from that short-lived relationship.

Ernest Hemingway’s success became very similar to that of a rock star. He had a following of dedicated readers who would follow his work and his life. His stories and books included Across the River and into the Trees, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories among others. Hemingway received a Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea in 1953 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Oddly enough, the protagonists in many of Hemingway’s stories were typically men who held their composure under fire but yet Hemingway could not. Ernest Hemingway committed suicide in 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.


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