Ernest Miller Hemingway
Birth:
July 21, 1899 - Death: July 2, 1961
Birth Place:
Oak Park, Illinois.
Hobbies:
Hunting -- Fishing -- Camping
Family:
Parents: Father-- Clarence Edwards Hemingway. Mother-- Grace Hall Hemingway.
Siblings: Ernest was the second born child, the first male. He had five other siblings.
Marriage:
Married four times and had three sons.
Education:
Oak Park and River Forest High School 1913 – 1917.
Work:
Hemingway did not attend college after high school and began to write as a reporter for the newspaper called The Kansas City Star.
WWI:
Hemingway left his job at the newspaper to join the United States Army but could not because he failed the medical exam due to poor eye sight. Instead he joined the Red Cross Ambulance Corps.
He was stationed in Italy where he rode on an ambulance taking care of the injured soldiers.
On July 8th 1918, Hemingway was injured by an Austrian trench bomb while delivering supplies to soldiers. The shell left fragments in his legs and was also hit by machine gun bursts, which ended his military career.
Hemingway was awarded the Silver Metal of Military Valor from the Italian government for dragging a wounded soldier to safety while being injured himself.
Treated in a Milan hospital that was run by the American Red Cross.
Here he fell in love with a nurse before he went back to the United States.
His involvement in the war and relationship with the nurse was an inspiration to the novel A Farewell to Arms.
WWII
Hemingway took a small part in naval warfare aboard a Q-ship called the Pilar.
After the FBI took over Caribbean counter- espionage, he went to Europe and was a war correspondent for Collier’s magazine.
Here he observed D-day from a landing craft and also got ashore and formed his own partisan group.
Received a Bronze Star for War correspondence.
After WWI
Hemingway returned to Oak Park where he began his writing career traveling to many places around the world.
Writing Honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters award of merit in 1954.
Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea in 1953.
Nobel Prize in Literature for lifetime literary achievement in 1954.