Earnest Hemingway

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Earnest Hemingway

• By Daphne Ying

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Profile

• Date of Birth
• 21 July, 1899
• Birth Place
• Oak Park, Illinois, USA
• Date of Death
• 2 July, 1961
• Nickname Papa

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What was Hemingway?

• A writer
• A war hero
• A war correspondent
• An expatriate
• A lion hunter

• A marlin fisherman
• A womanizer
• A drinker
• An overbearing ego
• A tragic figure

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Hemingway infant(Slides 312 from
http//myweb.dal.ca/diepev/3220/Hemingway20Sun.pp
t257,1,Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961)
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Toddler Hemingway
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Hemingway, 1905

• He discovered his lifelong love for hunting and
  fishing during his family trips to Michigan.

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Hemingway , 1906

• His father was a doctor.
• His mother taught music.
• He was the second child.
• He had 4 sisters and 1 brother.

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HemingwayRed Cross Uniform, about 1918

• From the fall of 1917 to the spring of 1918, he
  worked as a cub reporter for the Star.
• In 1918, he volunteered in WWI as an ambulance
  driver for the Red Cross.

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Hemingway in Italy

• He was wounded in both legs by mortar and
  machine-gun fire.

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Hemingways First Lover

• He stayed in a hospital in Milan and fell in love
  with a nurse Agnes von Kurowsky.
• 71/2 older
• The experience led to A Farewell to Arms.
  (1929)

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The Sun Also Rises (1926)

• An international success
• Based on Hemingways own experiences
• Chronicled a group of American expatriates living
  in Paris who travel to Pamplona, Spain for the
  San Fermin Festival

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Hemingways First Wife

• Hadley Richardson Hemingway (1921-1927)
• Wealthy
• Moved to Paris
• One son, Jack

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Hemingway, 1928

• I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone
  but her.
• -"A Moveable Feast

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A Farewell to Arms (1929)

• A WWI ambulance driver who is injured in action
  and falls for his nurse.
• It has a tragic end, reflecting the Lost
  Generations post-war dienchantment.

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Hemingways Second Wife

• Pauline Pfeiffer (19271940)
• A close friend of both Hadley and Earnest
• Two sons, Patrick and Gregory

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Second Wife
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In 1933

• He fulfilled a lifelong dream when he and wife
  Pauline went on an African hunting safari.
• The experience led to his best short story, The
  Snows of Kilimanjaro. (2002)

Hemingway on safari in Kenya, Feb 1934
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Hemingways Third Wife

• Martha Gellhorn (19401945)
• A reporter he met in 1936
• Accompanied Hemingway to Spain as a correspondent
  in 1937
• Independent, had her own ideas

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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

• A great success in a world falling into WWII.
• The story focused on the Spanish Civil War and an
  American fighting for the country he has grown to
  love.

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Hemingways Fourth Wife

• Mary Welsh (19461961)
• A feature writer for TIME
• They moved to Cuba.
• They also constantly quarreled.

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The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

• The publisher sent it back and claimed it was
  unpublishable.
• But they did like the last part about an old
  Cuban man and his battle with a monster marlin.
• Won Pulitzer Prize, 1952
• Won Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954

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Hemingways Writing Style

• Sparse
• Subtle
• Streamlined prose resonating with power

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Hemingways Fall

• In 1954, while on safari in Africa, he and his
  wife had a plane crash.
• The second plane crashed on take-off.
• He lost kidney function and got high blood
  pressure.
• The drug for high blood pressure had depression
  as a side effect.
• He could not stand the shock treatments.

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Hemingway Life, 1961

• He put a gunshot to his head to commit suicide in
  1961, 20 days before his birthday.

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Famous Quote

• I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now,
  whoever you are waiting for and if I never see
  you again, I thought. You belong to me and all
  Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook
  and this pencil.
   
• --"A
  Moveable Feast
• More quotes
• http//en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway