Timeline Ernest Hemingway

The life of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), ambulance driver, reporter and novelist of the Lost Generation, who wrote The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.

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1899 Ernest Hemingway born in Oak Park, Illinois Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago.
1917 Hemingway reporter at the Kansas City Star Ernest Hemingway skips college to work as a cub reporter, learning the paper's rule of short sentences.
1918 Hemingway wounded in Italy Serving as a Red Cross ambulance driver, Ernest Hemingway is badly wounded by mortar fire on the Italian front.
1921 Hemingway marries Hadley and moves to Paris Ernest Hemingway marries Hadley Richardson and moves to Paris, joining Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Fitzgerald.
1925 Hemingway publishes In Our Time Ernest Hemingway's first American book collects his early stories, including Big Two-Hearted River.
1926 Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway's novel of expatriates at the bullfights in Pamplona defines the Lost Generation.
1929 Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway's novel of an ambulance driver's love and war in Italy is his first bestseller.
1937 Hemingway reports on the Spanish Civil War Ernest Hemingway goes to Spain for the North American Newspaper Alliance, working with Martha Gellhorn.
1940 Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway's novel of an American dynamiter in the Spanish Civil War sells half a million copies within months.
1944 Hemingway on D-Day Ernest Hemingway watches the Normandy landings from a landing craft as a correspondent and later enters liberated Paris.
1952 Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway's novella of a Cuban fisherman appears complete in Life magazine and wins the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
1954 Hemingway survives two plane crashes On safari, Ernest Hemingway survives two plane crashes in two days in Uganda. Some newspapers print his obituary.
1954 Ernest Hemingway wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, too injured to travel to Stockholm.
1961 Ernest Hemingway dies in Ketchum, Idaho Ernest Hemingway dies by suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, after years of illness and depression.
1964 Hemingway's A Moveable Feast published Ernest Hemingway's memoir of his Paris years in the 1920s is published posthumously.