4. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
He was an American novelist,
short story writer, and
journalist.
His notable awards were:
Pulitzer Prize for fiction (1953)
Nobel Prize in literatura (1954)
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5. Clarence Edmonds
His father was a country
physician who taught his
son hunting and fishing.
Grace Hall Hemingway
his mother was a musician
and religious woman,
active in church affairs,
who led her son to play the
cello and sing in the choir.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
The Hemingway family in 1905 (from the left): Marcelline,
Sunny, Clarence, Grace, Ursula, and Ernest
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6. CHILDHOOD IN THE MIDWEST
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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“almost four years of age.” Image reproduced from his mother’s scrapbook, volume II, 1901– 1904. The Ernest
Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
7. IN HIGH SCHOOL
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
He attended Oak Park
and River Forest High
School. He took part in a
number of sports—
boxing, track and field,
water polo, and football.
He worked on his school
newspaper, writing
primarily about sports.
8. HERMEST HEMINGWAY’S PROFESSIONAL
LIFE
Immediately after graduation, the budding journalist went to work for the
Kansas City Star, gaining experience that would later influence his
distinctively stripped-down prose style.
9. HEMINGWAY’S PERSONAL LIFE
Ernest Hemingway on crutches while recovering in Milan, Italy,
September 1918. The Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection. John F.
Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
He went as volunteer to the Red
Cross medical service, driving an
ambulance on the Italian front.
He drove ambulances for two
months until he was wounded by
mortar fire.
He was decorated for his bravery by
Italian government.
10. MAJOR NOVELS
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
To haven and have not(1944)
The Old Man and the Sea
(1951)
A Moveable Feast (1964)
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
49 short stories and over 10 novels
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12. HEMINGWAY’S PROFESIONAL LIFE
Popular
characters in
his Works
• Soldiers,hunters,
bullfighter and
primitive people.
Themes of his
Works
• Courageous and
honest people
losing hope in a
modern, hectic
society.
His writing is
very dry and
descriptive
with little plot
– draws
heavily from
past
experiences.
Possibly
reflect his
own outlook
concerning
his place in
the world.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
13. HEALTH PROBLEMS
Declined physical condition and increasingly severe mental
problems drastically reduced his literary output in the last years of
his life.
He with his wife suffered a terrible accident, who suffered
severe burns and internal injuries from which he never fully
recovered.
was admitted to the Mayo Clinic to be treated for hypertension
(high blood pressure) and depression, and was later treated with
electroshock therapy, a radical therapy where an electric current is
sent through the body.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
14. He shot himself in Ketchum, Idaho
in 1961.
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