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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest (Miller) Hemingway

1899-1961

Entry Updated : 08/01/2001
Birth Place: Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Death Place: Ketchum, Idaho, United States

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Personal Information: Family: Born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park Illinois,
United States; committed suicide, July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, United
States son of Clarence Edmunds (a physician) and Grace (a music teacher;
maiden name, Hall) Hemingway: married Hadley Richardson, September 3, 1921
(divorced March 10, 1927); married Pauline Pfeiffer (a writer), May 10,
1927 (divorced November 4, 1940); married Martha Gellhorn (a writer), November
21, 1940 (divorced December 21, 1945); married Mary Welsh (a writer), March
14, 1946; children: (first marriage) John Hadley Nicanor; (second marriage)
Patrick, Gregory. Education: Educated in Oak Park, IL.

Career: Writer, 1917-61. Kansas City Star, Kansas City, MO, cub reporter,
1917-18; ambulance driver for Red Cross Ambulance Corps in Italy, 1918-19;
Co-operative Commonwealth, Chicago, writer, 1920-21; Toronto Star, Toronto,
Ontario, covered Greco-Turkish War, 1920, European correspondent, 1921-24;
covered Spanish Civil War for North American Newspaper Alliance, 1937-38;
war correspondent in China, 1941; war correspondent in Europe, 1944-45.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize, 1953, for The Old Man and the Sea; Nobel Prize
for Literature, 1954; Award of Merit from American Academy of Arts & Letters,
1954.

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:NOVELS

* The Torrents of Spring: A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of
a Great Race (parody), Scribner, 1926, published with a new introduction
by David Garnett, J. Cape, 1964, reprinted, Scribner, 1972.

* The Sun Also Rises, Scribner, 1926, published with a new introduction
by Henry Seidel Canby, Modern Library, 1930, reprinted, Scribner, 1969
(published in England as Fiesta, J. Cape,...