Ernest Hemingway

Early Life and Career

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois.
Clarence and Grace Hemingway raised their son in this conservative suburb of Chicago, but
the family also spent a great deal of time in northern Michigan, where they had a cabin. It
was there that the future sportsman learned to hunt, fish and appreciate the outdoors.

In high school, Hemingway worked on his school newspaper writing primarily about sports.
Immediately after graduation, the budding journalist went to work for the Kansas City Star,
gaining experience that would later influence his distinctively stripped-down prose style.

Military Experience
In 1918, Hemingway went overseas to serve in World War I as an ambulance driver in the
Italian Army.
There he met a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky, who soon accepted his proposal of
marriage, but later left him for another man. This devastated the young writer but provided
fodder for his works "A Very Short Story" and, more famously, A Farewell to Arms.

Still nursing his injury and recovering from the brutalities of war at the young age of 20, he
returned to the United States.

It was in Chicago that Hemingway met Hadley Richardson, the woman who would become
his first wife. The couple married and quickly moved to Paris, where Hemingway worked as a
foreign correspondent for the Star.
Life in Europe
In Paris, Hemingway soon became a key part of what Gertrude Stein would famously call
"The Lost Generation." With Stein as his mentor, Hemingway made the acquaintance of
many of the great writers and artists of his generation, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra
Pound, Pablo Picasso and James Joyce.

In 1925 Hemingway joined a group of British and American expatriates, on a journey to the
festival that would later provided the basis of Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises.
The novel is widely considered Hemingway's greatest work, artfully examining the post-war
disillusionment of his generation.

Soon after the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway and Hadley divorced, due in
part to his affair with a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer, who would become Hemingway's
second wife shortly after his divorce from Hadley. The author continued to work on his book
of short stories, Men Without Women.

Back in the U.S.A

Soon, Pauline became pregnant and the couple decided to move back to America. After the
birth of their son Patrick Hemingway in 1928, they settled in Key West, Florida. During this
time, Hemingway finished his celebrated World War I novel A Farewell to Arms.
Past times and the Spanish Civil War
When he wasn't writing, Hemingway spent much of the 1930s chasing adventure: big-game
hunting in Africa, bullfighting in Spain, deep-sea fishing in Florida.

While reporting on the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Hemingway met a fellow war
correspondent named Martha Gellhorn (soon to become wife number three) and gathered
material for his next novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which would eventually be nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize.

Almost predictably, his marriage to Pauline Pfeiffer deteriorated and the couple divorced.
Gellhorn and Hemingway married soon after and purchased a farm near Havana, Cuba,
which would serve as their winter residence.

When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Hemingway served as a correspondent
and was present at several of the war's key moments, including the D-Day landing. Toward
the end of the war, Hemingway met another war correspondent, Mary Welsh, whom he would
later marry after divorcing Martha Gellhorn.
In 1951, Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which would become perhaps his most
famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize.

Personal Struggles and Suicide

The author continued his forays into Africa and sustained several injuries during his
adventures, even surviving multiple plane crashes.

In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even at this peak of his literary career,
Hemingway suffered from depression and was treated for numerous conditions such as high
blood pressure and liver disease.

He wrote A Moveable Feast, a memoir of his years in Paris, and retired permanently to Idaho.
There he continued to battle with deteriorating mental and physical health.
Early on the morning of July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide in his home.

Match the words on the left with their proper definitions:

a cabin beginning and showing signs of promise in a particular sphere

budding material for a specific use
fodder a sudden attack into enemy territory, especially to get something
purchase a small wooden shelter or house in a wild or remote area
acquaintance buy
gather strengthen or support physically or mentally
deteriorate knowledge or experience of something
forays pick something up
sustain become progressively worse

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Ernest Hemingway

Early Life and Career

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 and raised in Oak Park, a suburb of
Chicago, Illinois. Nevertheless, the family also spent a great deal of time in northern
Michigan, where they had a cabin. It was there that the future sportsman learned to hunt, fish
and appreciate the outdoors.

In high school, Hemingway worked on his school newspaper writing primarily about sp____.
Immediately after graduation, the budding journalist went to work for the Kansas City Star,
gaining experience that would later influence his distinctively stripped-down prose style.

Military Experience
In 1918, Hemingway went overseas to serve in W____ W____ I as an ambulance dr___ in the
Italian Army.
There he met a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky, who soon accepted his proposal of
marriage, but later left him for another man. This devastated the young writer but provided
fodder for his works "A Very Short Story" and, more famously, A Farewell to Arms.

Still nursing his injury and recovering from the brutalities of war at the young age of 20, he
returned to the United States.

It was in Chicago that Hemingway met Hadley Richardson, the woman who would become
his first wife. The couple married and quickly moved to Paris, where Hemingway worked as a
foreign corr______ for the Star.
Life in Europe
In Paris, Hemingway soon became a key part of what Gertrude Stein would famously call
"The L___ G________." With Stein as his mentor, Hemingway made the acquaintance of
many of the great writers and artists of his generation, such as F. Scott F________, Ezra
P_____, Pablo P______ and James J______.

In 1925 Hemingway joined a group of British and American expatriates, on a journey to the
festival that would later provided the basis of Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises.
The novel is widely considered Hemingway's greatest work, artfully examining the post-war
disillusionment of his generation.

Soon after the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway and Hadley divorced, due in
part to his affair with a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer, who would become Hemingway's
second wife shortly after his divorce from Hadley. The author continued to work on his book
of short stories, Men Without Women.

Back in the U.S.A

Soon, Pauline became pregnant and the couple decided to move back to America. After the
birth of their son Patrick Hemingway in 1928, they settled in Key West, Florida. During this
time, Hemingway finished his celebrated World War I novel A Farewell to Arms.
Past times and the Spanish Civil War
When he wasn't writing, Hemingway spent much of the 1930s chasing adventure: big-game
h_____ in Africa, b_____ in Spain, deep-sea f_____ in Florida.

While reporting on the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Hemingway met a fellow war
correspondent named Martha Gellhorn (soon to become wife number three) and gathered
material for his next novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which would eventually be nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize.

Almost predictably, his marriage to Pauline Pfeiffer deteriorated and the couple divorced.
Gellhorn and Hemingway married soon after and purchased a farm near Havana, Cuba,
which would serve as their winter residence.

When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Hemingway served as a correspondent
and was present at several of the war's key moments, including the D-_____ landing. Toward
the end of the war, Hemingway met another war correspondent, Mary Welsh, whom he would
later marry after divorcing Martha Gellhorn.
In 1951, Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea, which would become perhaps his most
famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize.

Personal Struggles and Suicide

The author continued his forays into Africa and sustained several injuries during his
adventures, even surviving multiple plane crashes.

In 1954, he won the N_____ P_____ in Literature. Even at this peak of his literary career,
Hemingway suffered from depression and was treated for numerous conditions such as high
blood pressure and liver disease.

He wrote A Moveable Feast, a memoir of his years in Paris, and retired permanently to Idaho.
There he continued to battle with deteriorating mental and physical health.
Early on the morning of July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway committed s_____ in his home.

Match the words on the left with their proper definitions:

a cabin beginning and showing signs of promise in a particular sphere

budding material for a specific use
fodder a sudden attack into enemy territory, especially to get something
purchase a small wooden shelter or house in a wild or remote area
acquaintance buy
gather strengthen or support physically or mentally
deteriorate knowledge or experience of something
forays pick something up
sustain become progressively worse

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