Ernest Hemingway

Born

in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States

July 21, 1899

Died

July 02, 1961

Website

http://www.timelesshemingway.com/

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Anton Chekhov, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry ...more

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian fro Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent, and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.

After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from Spanish Civil War where he had acted as a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II; during which he was present at the Normandy Landings and liberation of Paris.

Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two plane crashes that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961. ...more

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	The Old Man and the Sea 3.70 avg rating — 497,951 ratings — published 1952 — 587 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sun Also Rises 3.83 avg rating — 280,763 ratings — published 1926 — 313 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.95 avg rating — 191,142 ratings — published 1940 — 327 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Farewell to Arms 3.78 avg rating — 192,497 ratings — published 1929 — 384 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Moveable Feast 4.04 avg rating — 82,831 ratings — published 1964 — 209 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Short Stories 4.29 avg rating — 35,192 ratings — published 1946 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories 3.88 avg rating — 24,750 ratings — published 1936 — 116 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Our Time 3.81 avg rating — 14,943 ratings — published 1925 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Have and Have Not 3.57 avg rating — 17,028 ratings — published 1937 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Garden of Eden 3.74 avg rating — 12,670 ratings — published 1985 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Ernest Hemingway

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by Ernest Hemingway, José J. Veiga (Translator)
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Quotes by Ernest Hemingway

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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Polls

March 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classic Reread

Which book would you like to read for our March 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classics group reread?

1903, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 204 pages

13 votes, 24.5%

1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages

7 votes, 13.2%

1883, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages

6 votes, 11.3%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

5 votes, 9.4%

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages

5 votes, 9.4%

1839, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 554 pages

4 votes, 7.5%

1969, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 215 pages

3 votes, 5.7%

1961, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages

3 votes, 5.7%

1811, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 409 pages

2 votes, 3.8%

1963, Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages

2 votes, 3.8%

1960, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1847, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 464 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1936, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1037 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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