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1940

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1899 192319211918

1926

1961&1964

1927 1929 1930-1937

A Timeline of Hemingway’s Life and Works

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1899

July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois.

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The home Hemingway was born in. http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvery/2383858344/

1918 While working as a volunteer for the Red Cross in Italy Hemingway was wounded. His experiences during World War I greatly influenced his later writing.

Hemingway drove an ambulance like this while he was in Italy during World War I.

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A picture of Hemingway in uniform during World War I.

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1921 Hemingway moves to Paris to write. While in Paris he meets other young American writers all of whom become the literary voice of the Lost Generation.

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One of Hemingway’s apartments in Paris. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomas96c/2263472812/

The bar at the Ritz Paris, where Hemingway and other writers would meet.

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1923

Hemingway’s Three Stories and Ten Poems is first published.

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The cover of his first collection of stories and poems.

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1924 A collection of short stories, In Our Time, was published. The stories contained reflect his childhood in Michigan.

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The cover of In Our Time. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/hemingway/hem3.html

1926

The Sun Also Rises is published, it is one of Hemingway’s best known and best loved novels. It has been called the quintessential novel for the lost generation, because of its depiction of expatriates after the war.

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Cover of The Sun Also Rises. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/hemingway/hem3.html

1927

Hemingway returns to America. A collection of short stories, Men Without Women is published.

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Cover of Men Without Women.

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1929

A Farewell to Arms, a story about love in World War I Italy (based on his romance with a nurse he met while injured in Italy), is published.

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Cover of A Farewell to Arms. http://www.greatwar.nl/hemingway/farewell.jpg

1930-1937 • 1930 The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories short stories• 1932 Death in the Afternoon a novel • 1933 Winner take Nothing short stories• 1935 Green Hills of Africa a novel• 1937 To Have and Have not a novel

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Publications:

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During this time some of Hemingway’s most famous and well written short stories were published in his collections. This includes A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls is published. The novel is based on what Hemingway experienced while doing correspondence work in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. His correspondence work was mostly during the first year of the Spanish Civil War, 1936.

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Cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

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Hemingway does not write much for the rest of the 1940’s, and his work is not published again until after 1950.

1950 & 1952

• 1950 Across the River and into the Trees is published. The book does not go over well, it is thought of as too sentimental.

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• 1952 The Old Man and the Sea is published, much more widely accepted and acclaimed than his 1950 publication, thought to be one of Hemingway’s best works.

Cover of Across the River and into the Trees. http://www.rarelibrary.com/book/HEM/103.00/ACROSS+THE+RIVER+AND+INTO+THE+TREES.html

Cover of The Old Man and the Seahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/mdaines/2393756754/

1961 &1964

After a decade long bout with mental as well as physical illness Hemingway committed suicide on July 2, 1961. Posthumously a book called A Movable Feast was published, taken from journals that he kept while living in Paris in the 1920’s.

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Cover of A Movable Feasthttp://www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections/movablefeast.jpg

Sources

• http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/hemingway.html

• http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/

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