Hemingway

Hemingway was born on July 22nd, 1899 in Illinois, Chicago. His mother wanted twins, and when she didn't get that she often dressed Hemingway and his older sisiter alike with the same hairstyles so that they looked like twins. His mother wanted him to enjoy music but he preferred being outdoors with his dad doing things like fishing, hunting, etc. Being with nature so early in life gave Hemingway a lifelong passion for being outdoors, on adventures and living in isolated areas.
Hemingway attended Oak Park and River Forest High School from September 1913 until June 1917. He was great both academically and athletically and displayed particular talent in English class. His first writing experience was in the school paper and yearbook in his junior year and then wirking as editor in his senior year.
He didn't want to go to college so, instead, he began his wrting carrer as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star. Even though he only worked there for six months he nevcer stopped following the Star's guide for his writing style.
They named Hemingway their top reporter of the last 100 years.
Against his fathers wishes, he tried joining the United States Army to see what happened in World War One. He failed the medical examination because of his poor vision and instead joined the Red Cross Ambulance Corps.
On his first day an ammunition factor blew up and he had to pick upo the remaindçs of the people in there. This first encounter with death left him shaken.
In July 1918, Heminway was wounded delivering supplies to the soldiers and this ended his carrer as an ambulance driver. He was later rewarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor for saving a wounded soldier even with his own wounds.

Hemingway fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky but their relationship did not last long. She became involved with an Italian officer. This provided inspiration for one of his earliest novels.
After the war, Hemmingway returned to his home town and started working for the Toronto Star newspaper. He became freinds with another reporte, Morley Callaghan ç, who also wrote novels highly praised by Hemingway.
On September 3rd Hemingway married his first wife, Hadley Richardson . In December 1921 they moved abroad, to Paris.
After much success as a foreign correspondent, they returned to Toronto where their son John Hadle Nicanor Hemingway, later known as Jack, was born.
Hemingway fell out with his editor around the same time. Harry Hindmarsh said Hemingway had been spoiled by time over seas. He resigned, but his resignation was ignored or just rescinded because he carried on working for the Toronto Star through 1924.
Hemingway met Scott Fitzgerald at a bar, and were at first close friends. They drank and talked alot. They also swapped manusripts and Fitzgerald tried to do alot on Hemingway's career but this relationship cooled of because thaey started to become competitive.
Hemingway divorced Hadley in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer, an ocasional fashion reporter.
In 1928 they moved to Key West, Florida.
However, their new life was soon interrupted by a tragic event.
Hemingway's father had diabetes and financial instabilities. He comitted suicide using an old civil war pistol. He immediatley travelled to Oak Park to organize the funeral.
At the same time, another friend of Hemingway, also comitted suicide.
Their second son Patrick was born in the same year, and their third son, Gregory, was to be born a few year later.
Following the advice of John Dos Passos, Hemingway returned to Key West in 1931, and established his first american home which is now a museum.
Over the next 9 years, until this marriage ended in 1940 and a bit into the 1950's, Hemingway spent alot of his life in the writers den in the converted garage.
In the fall of 1933 a safari took him to Kenya, leading, later to Tanzania. 1935 saw the publication of his book about his safari experience.
In 1937 Hemingway travelled to Spain to report on the civil war. While there, Hemingway broke his friendship with Dos Passos.
Some health problems charecterized this part of Hemingway's life.

The United States entered World War II on December 8th, 1941 and Hemingway sought to take part in naval warfare. His crew was charged with sinking German submarines threatening shipping of coast.
After the FBI took over he went to Europe as a war correspodent for Colliers magazine. There he observed the D-Day landings from a landing craft but he was not allowed on the shore.

Newly divorced from Gellhorn, he mnarried war correspondent, Mary Welsh Hemingway. He returned to Cuba and became public witness to the Rolando Masferrer schism within the Cuban communist party.
Later Years.
The Old Man And The Sea was published in 1952 and it earned him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. The next year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Then his traditionally bad luck struck again. On a safari he was in two plane crashes and very badly injured. Some of the American newspapers mistakenly published his death thinking he was dead.
Then one month later he was badly injured by a bushfire accident. The pain left him in anguish and couldn't travel to Stockholme to receive his Nobel Prize.
A bit of hope came when they discovered some of his earlier manuscripts in the cellar of the Ritz, although some of his energy was restored, his heavy drinking kept him down. His blood pressure and cholestorol was high, and he had aortal inflammation, his depression also aumented by his heavy drinking. However, in October 1956 he had the strength to go to Pío Baroja's burial, one of his literary influences.
In Februrary, 1960 he had trouble getting his bullfighting novel to the publishers and therefore had his wife Mary summon his friend Will Lang Jr. to leave Paris and come to Spain. The first part of the story was published in hos magazine and then the rest in the succesive issues.
Hemingway attempted suicide in the spring of 1961, receiving yet again ECT treatment.
Some weekes after his 62nd birthdau he took his own life on the morning of July 2,1961 at his home wqith a shotgun blast to his head. He was buried in a Roman Catholic service. He himself blamed the ECT for ruining his carrer by destroying his memory.
Other members of Hemingway's family also comitted suicide.
Heminway was interred in the town cemetry. a memorial was erected in 1966 at antoher location. It is inscribed with a euolgy he wrote for a friend, Gene Van Guilder:

Best of all he loved the fall
The leaves yellow on the cottonwoods
Leaves floating on the trout streams
And above the hills
The high blue windless skies
Now he will be a part of them forever

Ernest Hemingway -Idaho- 1936