Ernestst Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in suburban Oak Park, IL, to Dr. Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Ernest was the second of six children. I am going to talk about his childhood pursuits and how they fostered the interests which would blossom into literary achievements.
Ernest Hemingway's mother Grace hoped that her son would follow in her footsteps and have an interest in music but it was just the opposite. Young Hemingway preferred to accompany his father on hunting and fishing trips. This love of outdoor adventure would be reflected later in many of Hemingway's stories.
Hemingway also had an aptitude for physical challenge that engaged him through high school, where he played football as well as boxed. Because of his numerous boxing matches he suffered permanent damage to his eye and because of this he was repeatedly rejected from services in WWI. Hemingway was later able to participate in WWI as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. He was wounded on July 8, 1918 on the Italian front. I found this Information on http://www.gradesaver.com/author/ernest-hemingway/
Upon returning to the U.S. Hemingway eventually married Hadley Richardson in 1912.
In 1927 Hemingway published a short story collection. In the same year he divorced Hadley and married Pauline Pfiffer , a writer for Vogue. In this year a Farwell to Arms was published, and his father committed suicide. When his parents recieved the first copies of their son's book In Our Time, they read it with horror. Furious, his father sent the volumes back to the publisher, as he could not tolerate such filth in the house.
In 1960, the now aged Hemingway moved to Ketchum, Idaho, where he was hospitalized for uncontrolled high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes, and depression.
On July 2, 1961, he died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. He was buried in Ketchum, Idaho.
After Hemingway's suicide, stories surfaced that he had struck his wives and had beaten poet Wallace Stevens, a much smaller mam, over some minor literary quarrel. As told on http://www.americanlegends.com/authors/index.html
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I think it's crazy how a lot of great authors end up committing suicide or acts of violence.
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Alot of useful information, and it is sad that so many great authors die by their own hand.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I remember from High School was that Hemingway was a homosexual. that might be a good thing to add.
It seems Hemingway was a very passionate person and used his writing to convey his emotions and express himself. What a loss to the literary world to loss a great writer.
ReplyDeleteI love the picture at the top of the page. It is so "classic"! It's like if you looked up the word 'writer" in the dictionary this picture would be right next to the definition. Great blog, I like how the links were placed so the reader has access to the "rest of the story". Kelly
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