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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest HemingwayAKA Ernest Miller Hemingway

Born: 21-Jul-1899
Birthplace: Oak Park, IL
Died: 2-Jul-1961
Location of death: Ketchum, ID
Cause of death: Suicide
Remains: Buried, Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, ID

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Old Man And The Sea

Father: (physician, d. suicide)
Mother: Grace Hall Hemingway
Wife: Hadley Richardson (m. 3-Sep-1921, div. 10-Mar-1927, one son)
Son: John (b. 1923)
Wife: Pauline Pfeiffer (m. 10-May-1927, div. 4-Nov-1940, two sons)
Wife: Martha Gellhorn (m. 20-Nov-1940, div. 21-Dec-1945)
Wife: Mary Welsh (m. 14-Mar-1946, until his death)

    High School: Oak Park and River Forest High School, Oak Park, IL

    The Toronto Star Reporter, Greco-Turkish War (1921-24)
    Collier's War Correspondent (WWII)
    Nobel Prize for Literature 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea
    Tonsillectomy
    Shock Treatment
    Plane Crash Africa (1954)
    Plane Crash again, two days later (1954)
    Suicide Attempt Spring 1961
    Shot: Self-Inflicted Ketchum, ID (2-Jul-1961)
    Risk Factors: Depression, Alcoholism, Diabetes, Insomnia

Author of books:
Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923)
In Our Time (1924)
The Torrents of Spring (1926)
Today Is Friday (1926)
The Sun Also Rises (1926, novel)
Men Without Women (1927, short stories)
A Farewell to Arms (1929, novel)
Death in the Afternoon (1932, short stories)
God Rest You Merry Gentlemen (1933)
Winner Take Nothing (1933)
Green Hills of Africa (1935, nonfiction)
To Have and Have Not (1937, novel)
The Spanish Earth (1938)
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940, novel)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952, novel)
A Moveable Feast (1964, memoir)


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