Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

1899 - 1961

Born in Illinois

21st July 1899

Grace – religious, musicalClarence - outdoorsman

Parents

Hemingway’s Childhood

Reporter – birth of a style

WW1 – Red cross in Italy

Weak left eyeRejected for military serviceWounded‘A Farewell to Arms’

•Cruelty•Stupidity of war•Materialism•Quest for power•The value of enduring

•Foreign correspondent•Literary friends•Pamplona bullfights

Paris / Spain- 1920’s

•Deep sea fishing•Father’s suicide 1932•Trips to Cuba & Africa

Florida & Havana 1928

•Spanish civil war 1938

•Moved to Cuba in 1939

•WW2 US Navy Spotter

•Reputation restored•Pulitzer prize 1953•Nobel Prize 1954

1952 – The Old Man and the Sea

•Diabetes•High blood pressure•Mental depression•Electric shock therapy

1959 – Declining Health

2nd July 1961 – Suicide