Introduction to Ernest Hemingway

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Introduction to Ernest
Hemingway
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• Hemingway's birth and school life
• Hemingways young life
• His wives
• His writings
• Awards he had received
• Great words said by him

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• Author Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21,
  1899, in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close
  to the prairies and woods west of Chicago. Both
  here and in Michigan, he would explore, camp,
  fish and hunt with his physician father, Dr.
  Clarence "Ed" Hemingway..

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• Both parents and their nearby families fostered
  the Victorian priorities of the time religion,
  family, work and discipline. They followed the
  Victorians' elaborate sentimental style in living
  and writing. At Oak Park and River Forest High
  School, Ernest reported and wrote articles, poems
  and stories for the school's publications largely
  based on his direct experiences.

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• The year Ernest graduated he began reporting for
  the Kansas City Star. Here he learned to get to
  the heart of a story with direct, simple
  sentences. After entering World War I the
  following year, he was wounded near the
  Italian/Austrian front. Hospitalized, he fell in
  love with his nurse, who later called off their
  relationship. These dramatic personal events
  against the backdrop of a brutal war became the
  basis of Hemingway's first widely successful
  novel, A Farewell to Arms, published in the
  following decade.

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• In Europe in the 1920's , Ernest learned from
  avant-garde writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra
  Pound their literary spareness and compression.
  Hemingway used these methods in short stories and
  novels that captured the attention of both
  critics and the public.

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Elizabeth Hadley Richardson

• "Through his literary friends, he met and fell in
  love with another tall, lovely young woman,
  Hadley Richardson. She was eight years older than
  Hemingway..."

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Pauline Marie Pfeiffer

• "Pauline was a well-educated, devout Catholic
  with a great job, a huge trust fund, and
  countless, more suitable, admirers."

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Martha Ellis Gellhorn

• "Gellhorn's marriage to hemingway lasted five
  years, ending when Gellhorn left Hemingway, the
  only of his wives to do so."

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Mary Welsh

• "...a stunning blond journalist from
  Minnesota..."

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• 1923  Three Stories Ten Poems (published in
  Paris)
• 1924  In our time sic (published in Paris)
• 1925 In Our Time
• 1926 Torrents of Spring
• 1926 The Sun Also Rises
• 1927 Men Without Women
• 1929 A Farewell to Arms
• 1932  Death in the Afternoon
• 1933 Winner Take Nothing
• 1935  Green Hills of Africa

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• 1937 To Have and Have Not
• 1938  The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine
  Stories
• 1940  For Whom the Bell Tolls
• 1942  Men at War The best War Stories of All
  Time (edited and with introduction by Hemingway)
• 1950  Across the River and Into the Trees
• 1952 The Old Man and the Sea

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Pulitzer Prize (1953)

• Prize for Fiction
• The Old Man and the Sea

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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954

• "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most
  recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea,
  and for the influence that he has exerted on
  contemporary style"

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• A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
• The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to
  only one-eighth of it being above water.