Ernest Hemingway is a 20th-century novelist and Nobel laureate in literature. His most important works are Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.
About Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now Oak Park). He participated in World War I and worked as a journalist before he published his first story collection IN Our Time.Famous for his novels such as The Sun Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Whom The Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954. He committed suicide in 1961 in Ketchum.
The beginnings of Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway grew up with his parents Clarence and Grace Grace in a suburban suburb of Chicago, but spent some time in northern Michigan, in the family hut, where they learned to catch, fish and appreciate life in nature. During his high school, Hemingway worked in the school newspaper Trapez and Tabula in the sports section.After graduating he worked at Kanas city Star and gained considerable experience in his work, and his influence on his simple and clear writing style.Hemingway said: "While working for Star, we had to write in an easy and clear way. This is useful for anyone. Working in the press will not hurt a young writer. On the contrary, he will know if he knows the right time to resign."During the First World War, Hemingway worked as an ambulance driver in the Italian army. During his service he won the Italian silver medal for his courage. But was injured several times and hospitalized in Milan.
Ernest Hemingway 's achievements
During his stay in the hospital, he met a nurse named Agnes Von Kurosky who agreed to his request to marry her, but was later abandoned by another man.Agnes's emigration had a great impact on Hemingway but that inspired him to write A Very Short Story and A farewell to Arms. He returned to the United States at age 20 and had not recovered from war injuries.He spent some time in Northern Michigan and then got a job at the Toronto Star.In Chicago he met Hadley Richardson, who became his first wife and moved to Paris where he worked as a reporter for the Star newspaper.Hemingway became an important writer in the life of the "lost generation," as Gertrude Stein called it. Stein helped him identify many great writers and artists of the times such as Scott Fetzgerald, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso and James Joyce.In 1923, Hemingway and Heidley were granted the birth of John Heley Nichanor Hemingway. In this period Hemingway began going to the famous San Fermin Festival in Spain.In 1925, Hemingway and Heidley joined a group of travelers to attend the festival, which helped shape the basic elements of his first novel The Sun Also Rises. This novel is one of his greatest works, highlighting the disappointment of his generation after the war.After the publication of The Sun Also Rises ended his marriage to Heidley because of his relationship with Paulin Pfeiffer, who became his second wife. Hemingway continued to work on his collection of short stories Men Without Women.The couple returned to America after the birth of their child, Ptrick Hemingway, in 1928. They settled in Key West, Florida, but spent their summer holidays in Wyoming. In this period Hemingway finished his novel A Farewell To Arms, which talks about the First World War.At times when he was not writing, Hemingway spent most of his thirties searching for adventures, hunting in Africa, bullfighting in Spain and fishing in Florida. While covering the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Hemingway met a reporter, Martha Gelhorn (who became his third wife), and collected ideas about his next novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.As was expected, his marriage to Pauline deteriorated and reached divorce. He then married Martha and Ashtraya, a farm near Havana, Cuba, where they spent winter days.After the United States entered the Second World War in 1941 Hemingway worked as a military correspondent and was present at many historical moments. At the end of the war Hemingway met another reporter, Mary Welsh, whom he married after his divorce from Martha.In 1951 Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which became one of his most famous novels and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1945 he won the Nobel Prize.
Ernest Hemingway 's most famous words
I love listening, I have learned a lot from the art of listening, most people do not listen.
All you have to do to write is sit in front of the printer and start bleeding.
We are all trainees in a profession where no one becomes a master.
Never go on a trip with someone you do not love.
The best way to make sure that a person deserves your trust is to give it to him.
The intelligent person is sometimes forced to drink alcohol so that he can spend time with the idiots
I love listening, I have learned a lot from the art of listening, most people do not listen.
All you have to do to write is sit in front of the printer and start bleeding.
We are all trainees in a profession where no one becomes a master.
Never go on a trip with someone you do not love.
The best way to make sure that a person deserves your trust is to give it to him.
The intelligent person is sometimes forced to drink alcohol so that he can spend time with the idiots
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Ernest Hemingway 's personal life
Heidley Richardson was his first wife and gave birth to his son John. He married Pauline Pfeiffer and married their son Patrick and Gregory. He married Martha Gilhorn and his fourth wife, Mary Welch.
Death of Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway continued his trips to Africa and suffered many injuries as well as his survival from the crash of his plane several times.He took Hemingway's body and his mind let him down. While recovering from several injuries in Cuba, Hemingway began to suffer from depression, high blood pressure and liver disease.He wrote memoirs about his time in Paris, A moveable Feast, and then retired and settled in Idaho suffering from his deteriorating mental and physical health.On the second morning of July 1961, Hemingway committed suicide at his home in Kitchm.
Quick facts about Ernest Hemingway
- Hemingway's mother wanted to have a female child and continued to wear Hemingway for girls until he was four years old.
- He wanted to participate in World War I but could not because of his bad eyesight, but he persuaded the army to let him drive an ambulance.
- Hemingway once published the recipe for the apple pie in his column in the newspaper he was working in. He repeated it by publishing several other recipes that are now presented as archaeological souvenirs in museums.