1. When was Hemingway born? 2. When did Hemingway die? 3. How did Hemingway die? 4. Where is Hemingway from? 5. What wars was Hemingway in? By: Danielle Fleming Born: July 21, 1899 Died: July 2, 1961 he died from suicide. He had mental problems which led from being sick to death. Home town: Oak Park, Illinois a suburb of Chicago father Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a physician; Committed suicide in 1903 mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician Early Life Hemingway attended the public schools in Oak Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper. He then joined a volunteer ambulance unit in Italy during World War I in 1918 War Life By June he was stationed at the Italian Front, and on his first day in Milan was sent to the scene of a munitions factory explosion On July 8 he was seriously wounded by mortar fire Hemingway spent six months in the hospital, After the war Hemingway worked for a short time as a journalist in Chicago. He moved in 1921 to Paris, where wrote articles for the Toronto Star. After War In 1925 he published his first major work “In Our Time” In 1927 Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer in May. In the late spring Hemingway and Pauline traveled to Kansas City where their son Patrick Hemingway was born on June 28, 1928. After Patrick's birth, Pauline and Hemingway traveled to Wyoming, Massachusetts and New York. Sons John (Bumby) Hemingway was born1923 Patrick Hemingway was born on June 28, 1928. Gregory Hancock Hemingway was born on November 12, 1931 in Kansas City In 1937 Hemingway agreed to report on the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance NANA) During World War II, he was in Europe from June to December 1944. At the D-Day landing, military officials who considered him "precious cargo", kept him to a landing craft In 1947 Hemingway was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery during World War II. He was recognized for his valor in having been "under fire in combat areas in order to obtain an accurate picture of conditions" Hemingway said he "was out of business as a writer" from 1942 to 1945. In 1946 he married Mary, who had an ectopic pregnancy five months later. Hemingway and Mary had a series of accidents and health problems after the war From the end of the year in 1955 to early 1956, Hemingway was bedridden. He was told to stop drinking to mitigate liver damage, advice he initially followed but then disregarded in January 1961 he was "released in ruins". Three months later, back in Ketchum, Mary found Hemingway holding a shotgun one morning. She called Dr. Saviers, who sedated him and had him admitted to the Sun Valley Hospital They think he may have had the genetic disease hemochromatosis, in which the inability to metabolize iron culminates in mental and physical deterioration Major Works The Torrents of Spring (1925) The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929) To Have and Have Not(1937) Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) In Another Country(1927) The story I done was “In another country” WW1, Spanish civil war, and WWII is going on during this time Writing Style Imagism & collapsed plot Imagism: Name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912 He writes concise, vivid dialogue and exact description of places and things. Imagism & collapsed plot Imagism: Name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912 He writes concise, vivid dialogue and exact description of places and things. Collapsed plot: Doesn’t tell it all In this story he uses imagism when he says “There was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails” It is collapsed plot because he just leaves you hanging and doesn’t finish. Setting ‘‘In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.’’ So begins Ernest Hemingway’s short story, ‘‘In Another Country.’’ ‘‘In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.’’ So begins Ernest Hemingway’s short story, ‘‘In Another Country.’’ World War I the setting is Milan Conflicts: People lost body parts and got injured and are going to physical therapy at the hospital everyday. Theme is that war hurts people. -war -Sherwood Anderson -His family Ernest Hemingway Quotes “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” “Courage is grace under pressure.” Facts: -He loved cats -He had genetic history of suicide in his family -Hemingway married four times -Heavy Drinker http://www.famouspeoplebiographyguide.com/writer/Ernesthemingway/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway http://www.enotes.com/authors/ernest-hemingway http://classiclit.about.com/od/hemingwayernest/a/aa_ehemingw orks.htm Literature Book