Ernest Miller Hemingway - Biography.

Ernest Miller Hemingway - Biography. American novelist and short-story writer Birth July 21, 1899 Death July 2, 1961 Place of Oak Park, Illinois Birth Known for Chronicling the lives of the so-called lost generation of the 1920s and 1930s through his simple prose and crisp dialogue Milestones 1917-1918 Worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star and drove an ambulance for the American Red Cross during World War I Early 1920s In Paris, joined a literary circle of expatriate American writers including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, while working as a correspondent for the Toronto Star 1924 Published In Our Time, a collection of short stories 1926 Published The Sun Also Rises, a novel that follows the lives of wayward American and British expatriates living in France and Spain during the 1920s 1927 Published Men Without Women, a collection of short stories 1929 Published the novel A Farewell to Arms, a love story set in Italy during World War I 1932 Published Death in the Afternoon, a collection of short nonfiction works on bullfighting 1940 Published For Whom the Bells Tolls, a novel set during the Spanish Civil War 1952 Published the short novel The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize in fiction 1954 Won the Nobel Prize in literature 1964 A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's memoirs of his time in Paris, was posthumously published. Quote 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.' The Old Man and the Sea, (1952) Did You Hemingway was an amateur boxer in his younger years. Know Some newspapers mistakenly ran Hemingway's obituary in the 1950s after Hemingway was involved in two separate plane crashes in Africa. Injuries from these accidents left him in poor mental health for the rest of his life, and his depression culminated in suicide. A civilian in Cuba during World War II, Hemingway added surveillance capabilities to his own private boat, so he could guard the waters against German submarines. Hemingway was decorated as a hero after being injured during World War I, and served as a war correspondent in both the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.