Ernest Hemingway's Author Snapshot Biography.

Ernest Hemingway has long been a larger than life icon of American Fiction. Love his work (most people) or hate it (me), everyone knows who he is. His favorite inscription in books and uote to repeat was "il faut d'abord durer" or "First, one must last", and last he did.

Hemingway was born at the turn of the century in 1899 in a little town called Oak Park, Illinois. He had 5 brothers and sisters. He worked as a junior (cub) reporter for The Kansas City Star until he enlisted in World War I. He was wounded in Italy while serving during World War I as an ambulance driver.

After the war he settled in Paris as a reporter and famous ex-patriot, continuing to report during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, all while writing the novels that eventually made him famous. His first novel was The Sun Also Rises, published in 1926. He published A Farewell to Arms in 1926, For Whom The Bell Tolls in 1940, and the Pulitzer Prize winniing The Old Man And The Sea in 1952. He also wrote several poetry books. In 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Active in hunting and sports his entire life until falling ill from two plane crash related incidents, he eventually kiled himself with his hunting shotgun when an illness late in life ended his ability to write in 1961. He was found by his wife Mary. He left behind three sons.

Bibliography:

The Fifth Column, a play (unkn)

Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)

In Our Time (short stories, 1924)

The Torrents of Spring (a novel, 1926)

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Men without Women (1927)

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Death in the Afternoon (non-fic, 1932)

Winner Take Nothing (1933)

Green Hills of Africa (non-fic, 1935)

To Have and Have Not (1937)

First Forty-nine Stories (1938)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Men at War (edited, 1942).

Across the River and into the Trees (1950)

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

A Moveable Feast (published posthumously, 1964)

Islands in the Stream (posthumously, 1970)

The Nick Adams Stories (posthumously, 1972)

True at First Light (posthumously, 1999)

Links to more information about Ernest Hemingway:

Bedford Books Biography

Timeless Hemingway Fan Site

Lost Generation Hemingway Resource Center

Buy Books By Hemingway

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