3. ERNEST M. HEMINGWAY Born 1899 to a doctor and a teacher in Oak Park, Illinois

4. ERNEST M. HEMINGWAY Hemingway at the time of his graduation from high school, 1917 Hemingway graduated from High-School in Illinois, but he never attended college. Instead of that, he went to Kansas City to work as a journalist for a large newspaper.

5. WORLD WAR I In the spring of 1917, the United States became an active part in World War I, and Hemingway wanted join the army, but because of an eye condition, he never did. Still, it was his destiny to be part of the war. In early May 1918, he joined the Italian Red Cross ambulance corps.

6. WORLD WAR I On July 8,1918, at the age of 19, Hemingway was in the frontline distributing coffee, candy, and postcards to soldiers. An Austrian mortar landed in the area and Hemingway was wounded and left the war.

7. ERNEST M. HEMINGWAY His experiences in WWI as an Italian ambulance driver in the Red Cross and his romance with an older nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, led to his famous story, “A Farewell to Arms”.

8. After the war, Hemingway met and married Hadley Richardson. She was very wealthy, and so they were able to move to Paris, where Hemingway wanted to begin his writing career.

9. The 1920’s Ex-Patriots in Paris The Lost Generation Hemingway became part of a group called the Ex-pats. These were Americans who left the USA to live in Paris and develop their artistic careers. They were called The Lost Generation; they did not feel like part of the American society, and felt “lost” and disillusioned about their lives after the WWI.

10. Hemingway’s Second wife (1926) Hemingway’s first marriage lasted 6 years. He met Pauline Pfeiffer in 1926, divorced his first wife and married Pauline, the daughter of a wealthy landowner in Arkansas.

11. Late 1920’s-1930’s Hemingway gained the reputation as a talented writer and an avid sportsman.

12. Spanish Civil War Hemingway became a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War (late 1930’s). His love for shooting as well as writing made him quite successful.

13. Hemingway: the Sportsman Hemingway loved to fish and hunt. Here (1930’s) he has caught a record marlin. He was one of the most famous American fishermen of his time.

14. Hemingway: the Hunter Hemingway’s love for hunting started early in his life and continued throughout his life. He took several safaris to Africa, which were the inspiration for several of his writings.

15. Hemingway: the Hunter Hemingway’s reputation during the 1930’s and 1940’s was of a handsome and fearless sportsman; he became an internationally known fisher and hunter.

16. While on Safari, Hemingway always wrote. Some of the stories from his safaris : “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” and “The Snows of Kilamanjaro.”

17. Hemingway’s third wife (1940’s) Hemingway’s second marriage lasted 6 years. He met Martha Gelhorn in Spain, divorced his second wife and married Martha, an independent woman and successful writer.

18. World War II: War correspondent Hemingway was always drawn to wars. In 1944, he became a war correspondent and followed the Allied troops in Germany.

19. Hemingway’s fourth wife ( late 1940’s) Hemingway’s third marriage was brief and ended, because Martha did not want to follow Hemingway on every journey. When he met Mary Welsh in 1945, his relationship with Martha was already in trouble.

20. Hemingway‘s Life in the 1950s Hemingway had by the early 1950s become a celebrity of the first rank. As one Hemingway student has put it: "He once made news because of what he did; now he made news because of who he was.“ One indication of the truth of that statement was Look magazine's offer in 1953 to pay $15,000 of the expenses for Hemingway's forthcoming African safari if it could send a photographer along. For 3.500 words from Hemingway to run with the resulting pictures, it threw in $10,000 more. The deal was hard to refuse. On October 28th, 1954 the Swedish academy decided to award the Nobel price to Ernest Hemingway because of his powerful and modern style and his idealism for male brave and principles. He didn’t travel to Stockholm himself claiming to be wounded after a plain crash in Africa, but he wrote a speech to be read by the U.S ambassador John M. Cabot.

21. LITERARY PRIZES NOBEL PRIZE - 1954PULITZER PRIZE

22. Hemingway‘s last Days After the revolution in Cuba under Fidel Castro Hemingway looked for another place to live. The government in Cuba was against the United States. In 1959 they moved to Ketchum, which is situated close to Sun Valley. They bought a small house there. He got old, searched for quarrels and became mentally confused. He tried to commit suicide several times without success and was sent to a clinic, but even that didn’t help.

23. HEMINGWAY’S SUICIDE In 1961, Hemingway, weakend by a heart disease, shot himself in the head. His father and his granddaughter, the actress Margot Hemingwa, also killed themselves.

24. Famous Works 1952 193919291938

25. ICEBERG THEORY OF WRITING His journalistic work forced him to write in very short sentences. This style survived with the principle of deletion. “I always try to write on the principal of the iceberg. There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg, It is the part that doesn‘t show.” Ernest M. Hemingway