1. Ernest Hemingway Born: July 21, 1898 Oak Park, Illinois Died: July 2, 1961 Ketchum, Idaho

2. Childhood Born: June 21, 1899 in Oak Parks, Illinois
Father was a county physician and his mother was a religious woman
Played the cello and sang in the church choir
Distinguished himself as a scholar and athlete
Ran away from home during WWI and volunteered to be in the infantry, but got rejected because he had eye trouble

3. Adulthood Was a Kansas City Star reporter for several months
Enlisted in the Red Cross medical service
Enlisted in the Italian infantry after having a badly wounded knee
Worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star
After reporting for the Toronto Star, Hemmingway decided to move to Michigan and commit to fiction writing

4. Early Writing Career
1923 = published first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems
Showed Hemmingway being an emerging genius

5. Europe
Introduced him to Gertrude Stein (1846–1946) and Ezra Pound (1885–1972)—two American writers living in Europe.
Hemingway and his bride, Hadley Richardson, journeyed to Paris, where he learned much from these two well-known authors.

6. Europe….
Despite his lack of money and poor living conditions, these were the happiest years of Hemingway's life, as well as the most artistically productive.

7. Major novels
Hemingway returned to the United States in 1926 with the manuscripts of two novels and several short stories
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
Death in the Afternoon
For Whom the Bell Tolls

8. World War II
Following success of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway lapsed into a literary silence that lasted a full decade
In 1942, as a Collier's correspondent with the Third Army, he witnessed some of the bloodiest battles in Europe.
At this time he received the nickname of "Papa" from his admirers, both military and literary.

9. Following War
Hemingway and his wife purchased a home near Havana, Cuba.
In 1944 while in London, Hemingway met and soon married Mary Welsh, a Time reporter.
His three previous marriages—to Hadley Richardson, mother of one son; to Pauline Pfeiffer, mother of his second and third sons; and to Martha Gelhorn—had all ended in divorce.

10. Last Works In 1952 The Old Man and the Sea was published.
hailed as a masterpiece and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
A year later, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

11. Later Life
Hemingway's declining physical condition and increasingly severe mental problems drastically reduced his literary output in the last years of his life.
A journey to Africa planned by the author and his wife in 1954 ended in their plane crash over the Belgian Congo.

12. Later Life …..
Hemingway suffered severe burns and internal injuries from which he never fully recovered.
Additional strain occurred when the revolutionary Cuban government of Fidel Castro forced the Hemingways to leave Cuba

13. Illness
After only a few months in their new home in Ketchum, Idaho, Hemingway was admitted to the Mayo Clinic to be treated for high blood pressure and depression.
later treated with electroshock therapy, a radical therapy

14. His Death
Made bitter by an illness that humiliated him physically and impaired his writing, he killed himself with a shotgun on July 2, 1961.
He was only 63

15. After Death
Many of Hemingway's unpublished and unfinished works were published after his death.
Because of his amazing body of work, and his intense approach to life, Hemingway was arguably one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century.

16. Photos
Hemingway and Fitzgerald

17. Hemingway and Marlins