Ernest Hemingway was a handsome young man.
Early life
b. 1899, Oak Park, IL (near Chicago)
Father was a doctor
Grew up athletic, outdoorsy
Loved boxing
Young Adulthood
School newspaper and literary magazine
WWI, 1917, tried to enlist, rejected (boxing injury)
Became a reporter, Kansas City Star
Europe
1918, joined the Red Cross ambulance corps
Severely wounded on Italian front
Hospital in Milan
Returned to U.S. and reporting
Sherwood Anderson
Return to Europe
1921, became foreign correspondent
American ex-patriates in Paris
Gertrude Stein, simplicity in writing
Success and fame
Won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1954)
Hunting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, bullfighting
Lived in Cuba, later moved to Idaho
Behind the scenes
Big persona, depression, alcoholism
d. 1961, self-inflicted gunshot
Notable Works
In Our Time
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
A Movable Feast (posthumous)
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