Timeline of Ernest Hemingway's life
1899 - Ernest Miller Hemingway born to Clarence and Grace Hemingway on July 21 in Oak Park, IL
1917 - Graduates high school; reporter for the Kansas City Star
1918 - World War I ambulance driver for the American Red Cross; wounded on July 8 on the Italian front near
Fossalta di Piave; has an affair with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky, who later rejects him.
1920 - reporter for Toronto Star.
1921 - married to Hadley Richardson; moves to Paris, France.
1922 - correspondent for Toronto Star covering Greco-Turkish War.
1923 - Three Stories and Ten Poems published by Robert McAlmon in Paris; birth of son John.
1924 - in our time, a collection of vignettes, published in Paris by Three Mountains Press.
1925 - In Our Time, adding fourteen short stories to the earlier vignettes, published in New York by Boni &
Liveright
1926 - The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises published by Charles Scribner's Sons
1927 - publishes short story collection, Men Without Women; marries Pauline Pfieffer after divorcing Hadley
Richardson.
1928 - moves to Key West, FL, USA; birth of son Patrick.
1929 - father commits suicide in Oak Park, IL; A Farewell to Arms published.
1931 - birth of son Gregory.
1931 - buys a home in Key West, FL and lives there for ten years.
1932 - Death in the Afternoon published.
1933 - publishes short story collection, Winner Take Nothing.
1935 - Green Hills of Africa published.
1937 - travels as war correspondent to the Spanish Civil War; To Have and Have Not published.
1938 - collaborates with Joris Ivens on The Spanish Earth, a film espousing the Loyalist cause; publishes The Fifth
Column and The First Forty-nine Stories.
1940 - divorces Pauline Pfieffer, marries Martha Gellhorn; purchases Finca Vigia in Cuba; For Whom the Bell Tolls
published.
1942 - edits Men at War.
1944 - meets Mary Welsh in London, UK; travels with American troops in France and Germany as World War II
correspondent; participates in Allied liberation of Paris, France.
1945 - divorces Martha Gellhorn.
1946 - marries Mary Welsh.
1950 - Across the River and into the Trees published.
1951 - mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, dies.
1952 - The Old Man and the Sea published 1954 – receives Nobel Prize for Literature.
1960 - moves to Ketchum, Idaho; hospitalized for uncontrolled high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes,
depression.
1961 - commits suicide in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2.