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Ernest Hemingway

• By Jamie Tennesen, Corey Bond, Josh Carr, Ed
  Roslasky, Brianna Pierro, and Kellyann McClain

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Early Life

• Born Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899
• In WWI (after high school) he became an ambulance
  driver for the Italian Army
• Was seriously injured in 1918 and returned home
• Became reporter for Canadian and American
  newspapers and was soon sent back to Europecover
  events like the Greek Revolution

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Love Life

• Married in 1922 to Hadley Richardson
• Moved to Paris and worked as a foreign
  correspondent
• Divorced Hadley in 1927 and married Pauline
  Pfeiffer
• Divorced after he returned from the Spanish
  Civil War
• Martha Gellhorn is his third wife-married in
  1940
• He met Mary Welsh in London during WWIand
  divorced Martha

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Love Life (Extended)

• He fell in love with a nurse (Agnes von Kurowsky)
  as he was away at war, as he proposed his love
  for her, she rejected him, this is the reason
  that he abandoned his future relationships before
  they abandoned him
• He believed that his life was a mess when he was
  awake so he enjoyed sleeping
• to get away from reality

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Education

• Hemingway began his career in high school when he
  began writing for his school newspaper about
  sports
• Used the pen name Ring Larder, Jr. in high
  school.
• Excelled in English class
• Also wrote for the yearbook
• graduated high school in 1917

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Education (continued)

• Did not go to college
• began writing career as soon as high school was
  over
• First writing job was for the Kansas City Star
  for a short six months
• Got the job because his uncle Tyler was a friend
  of the chief editorial writer of the paper
• The papers style of writing guided him to write
  in short declarative statements that he is now
  known for.

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Hobbies interests

• bullfighting
• Named his son after a famous matador he admired
• deep-sea fishing
• inspired his novels The Big Two-Hearted River
  The Old Man and The Sea
• hunting fishing
• Reading Writing
• sports such as water basketball, football and
  track and field.

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Works

• Hemingways first major work was, The Sun Also
  Rises (1926)
• His injuries in WW1 influenced his writings in A
  Farewell to Arms (1929)
• He also wrote The Fifth Column and the First
  Forty-Nine Stories (1938), and one of his most
  common pieces The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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Successes

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953
• Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954
• A praised modernist
• Influenced many writers
• An asteroid discovered by the Soviet Union was
  named after him

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Death

• Went on a safari to Africa in 1952-was almost
  killed in two plane crashes
• Was left in pain and ill-health for the rest of
  his life
• Moved to Idaho in 1959
• Committed suicide in the summer of 1961