(1899-1961) American writer. Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He was famous for his novels, short stories and essays, with works that include: "The Sun Also Rises" (1926), "A Farewell to Arms" (1929), "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940) and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952). Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Ernest Hemingway Birth:
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His mother, Grace Hall, was an opera singer. His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a doctor.Ernest Hemingway Death:
Ernest Hemingway committed suicide on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He had been released from hospitalization at the at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for severe depression; and he had also received shock therapy. Hemingway's alcoholism is often associated with his eventual death.Ernest Hemingway Marriages / Relationships:
Ernest Hemingway's affair with Agnes von Kurowsky became the inspiration for "A Farewell to Arms" (1929).Ernest Hemingway Associations:
Ernest Hemingway lived in Paris, France beginning in 1921; and became associated with the Lost Generation, which included writers like Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and others. Hemingway described his experiences there in "The Sun Also Rises" (1926).Ernest Hemingway Lines from "The Snows of Kilimanjaro":
"And then it just occurred to him that he was going to die. It came with a rush, not as a rush of water nor of wind; but of a sudden evil-smelling emptiness, and the odd thing was that the hyena slipped lightly along the edge of it."
