Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Trgovačka škola, Zagreb student: Laura Rabatić,3.ck

komercijalist teacher: Gabrijela Čorković

May 20, 2015

Early life

o Ernest Miller Hemingwayo July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinoiso American author and journalist

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Sep 1913Hemingway in High Schoolo Oak Park and River Forest High School o an excellent studento athlete - box, footballo writes for the school newspaper and yearbook

1917Cub Reporter

o opts not to go to collegeo job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star newspaper

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Apr 30, I9I8World War I – Ambulance Driver

o attempts to join the U.S. Army o the Army rejects him o volunteers as a driver

Military Experience

1918 – went overseas to serve in World War I

– he was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery

– sustained injuries that landed him in a hospital in Milan

Jul 8, 1918Hemingway Wounded in Battle

o injured by a trench mortar and machine guno Silver Medal of Militaryo career as an ambulance driver is overo falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky

o nurse accepted his proposal of marriageo left him for another mano „A Very Short Story”o „A Farewell to Arms”

o Hadley Richardson – first wifeo moved to Pariso Toronto Staro John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway

Life in Europe

o first novel „The Sun Also Rises”o Hemingway's greatest work

o Hemingway and Hadley divorcedo Pauline Pfeiffer – second wifeo book of short stories, ”Men Without Women”

Critical Acclaim

o Pauline became pregnant; their son Patricko the couple moved back to Americao settled in Key West, Floridao „A Farewell to Arms”

o 1937, Martha Gellhorno they got married soon

o Mary Welsh – third wifeo suffered from depressiono Idaho – battle with deteriorating mental and physical health

1951 – wrote The Old Man and the Sea – his most famous book – Pulitzer Prize

Personal Struggles and Suicide

o 1954 – the Nobel Prize in Literatureo high blood pressure and liver diseaseo A Moveable Feast – a memoir of his years in Paris

July 2, 1961 committed suicideo genetic disease hemochromatosiso heavy drinker for most of his life

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