Transcript Ernest Hemingway - Butler County High School

Ernest Hemingway
1899-1961
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Born in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, on
July 21, 1899. His father was a doctor.
As a child growing up, Hemingway was an
athletic young man who boxed and played
football, but also wrote poetry and
columns for the school newspaper.
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After graduating high school in 1917,
Hemingway desperately wanted to join the army
and fight in WWI, but was rejected because of
an eye injury from boxing and so he became a
writer for the Kansas City Star.
After a year, Hemingway got his chance to see
war as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in
Italy, but was wounded after only six weeks.
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This experience in Italy and the injury
greatly influenced Hemingway’s writing.
He fell in love with a nurse while in an
Italian hospital and she became the model
for his novel A Farewell to Arms.
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After the war, Hemingway returned to Michigan,
but then set off for Paris in 1921 as a roving
reporter for The Toronto Star.
While in Paris, Hemingway perfected his writing
techniques along with other fellow expatriates F.
Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce and Ezra Pound.
While there he published many short stories and
a novel The Sun Also Rises about his time spent
in Paris.
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Throughout the rest of his life, Hemingway
continued to travel and write. In 1940 he
published For Whom the Bell Tolls. During
WWII he traveled as a correspondent
throughout Europe.
In 1953 he won the Pulitzer Prize for The
Old Man and the Sea which is said to be a
metaphor of Hemingway’s life.
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Because of his successes, Hemingway became
as famous as any movie star of the time. With
this fame, Hemingway also suffered from
depression.
After receiving treatment for depression at the
Mayo Clinic, Hemingway returned to his home in
Idaho and on July 2, 1961 and shot himself with
a double barreled shotgun.