Brailyn Franklin
Ms. Cagle
English-4
BORN
PARENTS
SIBLINGS
7-21-1899 Clarence & Grace Marcelline (sister)
(sister)
Hemingway Ursula
Madelaine (sister)
Carol (sister)
Leicester (brother)
HOMETOWN
DIED
Oak Park, Illinois
7-2-1961
Ernest was the second child,
and first son, born to Clarence
and Grace Hemingway
 Father-Clarence
 Mother-Grace
His mother insisted he
learn to play the cello
His father taught him how to hunt, fish
and camp in the woods when he was 4
He really appreciated and loved nature because he was introduced to it when
he was really young. Ernest and his mom didn’t always get along but later in
life he appreciated her for it.
High School
Accomplishments
Attended Oak Park and River Forest High
School (1913-1917)
High School
Activities
SCHOOL ORCHESTRA
WATER POLO
Excelled in English Class
Wrote in & Edited The Trapeze and the Tabula
(the school's newspaper and yearbook, this happened because
he took a journalism class his junior year and his work was good)
BOXING
Used pen name Ring Lardner, Jr. in honor of
Ring Lardner of the Chicago Tribune whose
byline was "Line O'Type”
FOOTBALL
TRACK & FIELD
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1921-1927)
1 child-John Nicanor “Bumby” Hemingway
Pauline Pfeiffer (1927-1940)
2 children-Patrick Hemingway &
Gregory Hancock Hemingway
Martha Gellhorn
(1940-1945)
Mary Welsh
(1946-1961)
Patriotic In:
Present for:
World War I (1918-1919)
 Enlisted as Ambulance Driver in Italy
 Stationed at the Italian Front & Fossalta
di Piave
 Received the
Newspaper Alliance (NANA)
of
he was wounded)
World War II (1939-1945)
 Formally charged for a contravention of
 Awarded a
 Reporter for the North American
 Battle of the Ebro (1938)
Bravery (he carried an Italian soldier to safety, while
the Geneva Convention*
Spanish Civil War (1937-1939)
World War II (1939-1945)
 D-Day Landing (1944)
 Liberation of Paris (1944)
 Battle of the Bulge (1944)
 Battle of
Hürtgen Forest (1944-1945)
*Hemingway became de facto leader to this militia in Rambouillet. He got into a lot
of trouble but said he "beat the rap" by claiming that he only offered advice.
Childhood & Literary
Other Close Friends
 Jon Dos Passos
 Pablo Picasso
 Eric Edward “Chink” Dorman-Smith
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Henry Sorrano Villard
Gertrude Stein (his mentor)
James Joyce
Ezra Pound
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Max Perkins
Sherwood Anderson
W.B. Yeats
Ford Madox Ford
Pio Baroja
 Joan Miro
 Juan Gris
 Joris Ivens
 Carl Sandberg
 Isak Dinesen
 Bernard Berenson
CARIBBEAN
SPAIN
CHICAGO
CUBA
PARIS
TORONTO
Hotel Ambos Mundos
1st Apt. Home in Paris
Birthplace in Oak Park
Finca Vijia
Key West Home
Descriptions of his
writing style
Awards & Influence
 simple sentences
 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)
 used his experiences and drew them
out with "what if" scenarios
 Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
 writer of short stories
 crafted skeletal sentences
 "multi-focal" photographic reality
 Strong influence on 20th-century
fiction
 Intentional omissions
 “snapshot" style creates a collage of
images
The Iceberg Theory (also known as the "theory of omission") is the writing style of
American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway called his style the iceberg theory: the
facts float above water; the supporting structure and symbolism operate out of sight.
Novels
Collections
(1926) The Torrents of Spring
(1923) Three Stories and Ten Poems
(1926) The Sun Also Rises
(1925) In Our Time
(1929) A Farewell to Arms
(1927) Men Without Women
(1937) To Have and Have Not
(1933) Winner Take Nothing
(1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1938) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine
Stories
(1950) Across the River and Into the Trees
(1952) The Old Man and the Sea
(1970) Islands in the Stream
(1961) The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
(1969) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the
Spanish Civil War
(1986) The Garden of Eden
(1972) The Nick Adams Stories
(1999) True at First Light
(1979) 88 Poems
Nonfiction
Posthumous
(1932) Death in the Afternoon
(1964) A Moveable Feast
(1935) Green Hills of Africa
(1969) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the
(1962) Hemingway, The Wild Years
Spanish Civil War
(1970) Islands in the Stream
(1964) A Moveable Feast
(1972) The Nick Adams Stories
(1967) By-Line: Ernest Hemingway
(1985) The Dangerous Summer
(1970) Ernest Hemingway: CubReporter
(1986) The Garden of Eden
(1985) The Dangerous Summer
(1987) The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest
Hemingway
(1985) Dateline: Toronto
(1999) True at First Light
(1992) The Complete Poems
(2005) Under Kilimanjaro
 The Kansas City Star
 Toronto Star
 Cooperative Commonwealth
 Transatlantic review
 North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA)
 PM (Picture Magazine)
 Relied heavily on the Kansas City Star’s style guide as a foundation for
his writing: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use
vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”
 He had A LOT of injuries from accidents, crashes & bad
decisions
 Heavy Drinker
 Family known for committing suicide
(Clarence-father, Ursula-younger sister, Leicester-brother, Margaux-granddaughter, and Ernest)
 There are plays, movies, statues, clubs, schools, highways,
competitions, and other things named after him
 The FBI had opened a file on him during WWII.