Ernest Hemingway - (1899-1961)
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Belleville Township High School East in Belleville, Illinois
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I. Biography Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899, to Grace and Clarence Hemingway. His mother was a potential opera singer, but she returned to Oak Park after
her debut performance in New York. His father was a physician. Hemingway was the oldest of six children. For the most part, he had a good family life. Both of his parents were
strong influences on him. When he was older, Hemingway got in a fight with his mother; because of this fight, he was never close to either one of his parents again.
Hemingway left home in 1918 to serve in World War I. He drove an ambulance for the American Red Cross until he was wounded on July 8. While he was being treated, he had
an affair with a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. She would become his inspiration for A Farewell to Arms. After the war, Hemingway worked on the Toronto Star.
He married his first wife, Hadley Richardson, in 1921. After their marriage, the couple moved to Paris, France. His first son was born in 1923. In 1927, Hemingway divorced
Hadley so that he could marry Pauline Pfeiffer. In 1928 the newlyweds moved to Key West, Florida, where their son Patrick was born. Hemingway's third son Gregory was born in 1931. Hemingway's father committed suicide
in 1929. Hemingway continued to live in Florida until he divorced Pauline in 1940. In the same year, he married Martha Gellhorn and bought a home in Cuba named Finca Vigia.
During World War II, Hemingway followed Americans around France acting as a war correspondent. In 1945, he divorced Gellhorn and married Mary Welsh in 1946. In 1960 he
moved to Ketchum, Idaho, to be treated for liver disease and depression. On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway shot himself in Ketchum, Idaho. II. Local Significance
Even though most of his works were written in Paris and Florida, Hemingway is considered an Illinois author. He was born in a suburb of Chicago called Oak Park. Today, the house he used to live in is a museum.
III. List of Works * Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) Posthumously: * A Moveable Feast (1964) IV. Audio Clips Audio clips of Ernest Hemingway are available at the Kansas City Star webpage.
* In Our Times (1925)
* The Sun Also Rises (1926)
* The Torrents of Spring (1926)
* Men Without Women(1927)
* A Farewell to Arms (1929)
* Death in the Afternoon (1932)
* Winner Take Nothing (1933)
* Green Hills of Africa (1935)
* To Have an Have Not (1937)
* The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
* For Whom the Bell Tolls (1939)
* Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)
* The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
* Island in the Stream (1970)
* The Dangerous Summer (1985)
* The Garden of Eden (1986)
* True at First (1999)
V. Related Sites For more information on Hemingway, try the Ernest M. Hemingway Home Page.
VI. Sources Gagne, David V. The Ernest M. Hemingway Home Page. 27 Oct. 1999
This essay was submitted by students of Kimberly Richey, a teacher at Belleville Township High School East in Illinois.