Ernest Hemingway

July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961

American novelist of A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea; Nobel Prize in Literature 1954.

Biography

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and journalist. He was wounded as an ambulance driver in Italy in World War I and later reported on the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

His spare, understated style transformed English prose. Major works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and died by suicide in 1961.

Affiliations

Employment

from Jan 1, 1917 The Kansas City Star Cub reporter for about six months after high school
Dec 1, 1917 – Dec 31, 1918 American Red Cross Volunteer ambulance driver with the American Red Cross Motor Corps in Italy; wounded 1918
from Jan 1, 1919 Toronto Star Freelancer and staff writer for the Toronto Star Weekly, then from late 1921 foreign correspondent in Paris
from Feb 27, 1937 North American Newspaper Alliance Correspondent covering the Spanish Civil War; sailed from New York 27 February 1937