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A Short Biography of Ernest Hemingway

Author Name:

Ernest Hemingway

Born As:

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Other Names:

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Born:

21 Jul 1899

Died:

2 Jul 1961




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Journalist, novelist, short story writer                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

The Torrents of Spring - 1925 
The Sun Also Rises - 1926
 In Another Country - 1926
A Farewell to Arms - 1929
To Have and Have Not - 1937
For Whom the Bell Tolls - 1940
Across the River and Into the Trees - 1950
The Old Man and the Sea - 1952
Islands in the Stream - 1970
The Garden of Eden - 1986
True at First Light - 1999 

Collections:

Three Stories and Ten Poems - 1923 
In Our Time - 1923
Men Without Women - 1927
Winner Take Nothing - 1933
The Snows of Kilimanjaro - 1936
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories - 1938
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War - 1969
he Nick Adams Stories - 1972 
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway - 1987
Everyman's Library: The Collected Stories - 1995

Anthologies - edited by Hemingway
Men at War

Nonfiction:

Death in the Afternoon - 1932
Green Hills of Africa - 1935
Hemingway, The Wild Years - 1962
A Moveable Feast - 1964
By-Line: Ernest Hemingway - 1967
Ernest Hemingway: Cub Reporter - 1970
Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters - 1981
The Dangerous Summer - 1981
Dateline: Toronto - 1985
Hemingway on Fishing - 2000 
Under Kilimanjaro - 2005

Stage Plays:

A Short Happy Life - 1961
The Hemingway Hero working title was: Of Love and Death - 1967.                                              
Mother Grace Hall
Father Dr. Clarence Edmonds,six children,  Marcelline, Ernest, Ursula, Madelaine, Carol,and Leicester.
Wife one Elizabeth Hadley Richardson - 1921-1927, one child,  John Hadley Nicanor
Wife two Pauline Pfeiffer - 1927-1940, two children, Patrick and Gregory
Wife three Martha Gellhorn - 1940-1945, no children.
Wife four Mary Welsh  - 1946-1961, no children.

Hemingway committed suicide as did other members of Hemingway's family, which includes his father, Clarence , his siblings Ursula and Leicester, and granddaughter Margaux Hemingway.                                              
Silver Medal of Military Valor - Medaglia d'argento - World War I
Bronze Star - War Correspondent-Military Irregular - World War II in 1947

Pulitzer Prize in 1953 - The Old Man and the Sea

Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for lifetime literary achievements.                                              
Part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir A Moveable Feast.