Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway’s ChildhoodBorn on July 21, 1899,

in the village of Oak Park, IL (west of Chicago).

Both here and in

Michigan, he would explore, camp, fish and hunt.

Hemingway’s Childhood

Practiced Victorian beliefs and priorities of the time…

religionfamilywork discipline

In School

Oak Park and River Forest High School

Wrote for school’s publicationspoemsstories

Based on his own experiences

After high school…

The year Ernest graduated he began reporting for The Kansas City Star.

Here he learned to get to the heart of a story with direct, simple sentences..

After high school…

After entering World War I the following year, he was wounded near the Italian/Austrian front.

Hospitalized, he fell in love with his nurse, who later called off their relationship.

After the war…

These dramatic personal events against the backdrop of a brutal became the basis of Hemingway’s first widely successful novel published in the following decade.

After the war…

In Europe in the 1920's, Ernest learned from avant-garde writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound their literary sparseness and compression.

Short and sweet

His method…

Hemingway used these methods in short stories and novels that captured the attention of both critics and the public.

"Through his literary friends, he met and fell in love with another tall, lovely young woman, Hadley Richardson. She was eight years older than Hemingway..."

Wife #1 -- Elizabeth Hadley Richardson

“Pauline was a well-educated, devout Catholic with a great job, a huge trust fund, and countless, more suitable admirers."

Wife #2 -- Pauline Marie Pfeiffer

"Gellhorn's marriage to Hemingway lasted five years, ending when Gellhorn left Hemingway, the only of his wives to do so."

Wife #3 -- Martha Ellis Gellhorn

"...a stunning blond journalist from Minnesota..."

Wife #4 -- Mary Welsh

1923 Three Stories & Ten Poems(published in Paris)

1924  In Our Time (published in Paris)

1925 In Our Time

1926 Torrents of Spring

1926 The Sun Also Rises

1927 Men Without Women

1929 A Farewell to Arms

1932  Death in the Afternoon

1933 Winner Take Nothing

1935  Green Hills of Africa

Hemingway’s Publications

1937 To Have and Have Not

• 1942  Men at War: The best War Stories of All Time• (edited and with introduction by Hemingway)

1938  The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

• 1952 The Old Man and the Sea

1940  For Whom the Bell Tolls

1950  Across the River and Into the Trees

Hemingway’s Publications

Prize for Fiction

The Old Man and the Sea

Pulitzer Prize (1953)

“for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954

Famous sayings….A man can be

destroyed but not defeated.

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

is based on Hemingway