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Ernest hemingway.

Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists, and is known for works like 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'The Old Man and the Sea.'

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(1899-1961)

Who Was Ernest Hemingway?

Ernest Hemingway served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time . He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises , A Farewell to Arms , For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea , which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize. He committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.

Early Life and Career

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois. Clarence and Grace Hemingway raised their son in this conservative suburb of Chicago, but the family also spent a great deal of time in northern Michigan, where they had a cabin. It was there that the future sportsman learned to hunt, fish and appreciate the outdoors.

In high school, Hemingway worked on his school newspaper, Trapeze and Tabula , writing primarily about sports. Immediately after graduation, the budding journalist went to work for the Kansas City Star , gaining experience that would later influence his distinctively stripped-down prose style.

He once said, "On the Star you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time."

Military Experience

In 1918, Hemingway went overseas to serve in World War I as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army. For his service, he was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery, but soon sustained injuries that landed him in a hospital in Milan.

There he met a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky, who soon accepted his proposal of marriage, but later left him for another man. This devastated the young writer but provided fodder for his works "A Very Short Story" and, more famously, A Farewell to Arms .

Still nursing his injury and recovering from the brutalities of war at the young age of 20, he returned to the United States and spent time in northern Michigan before taking a job at the Toronto Star .

It was in Chicago that Hemingway met Hadley Richardson, the woman who would become his first wife. The couple married and quickly moved to Paris, where Hemingway worked as a foreign correspondent for the Star .

Life in Europe

In 1925, the couple, joining a group of British and American expatriates, took a trip to the festival that would later provide the basis of Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises . The novel is widely considered Hemingway's greatest work, artfully examining the postwar disillusionment of his generation.

Soon after the publication of The Sun Also Rises , Hemingway and Hadley divorced, due in part to his affair with a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer, who would become Hemingway's second wife shortly after his divorce from Hadley was finalized. The author continued to work on his book of short stories, Men Without Women.

Critical Acclaim

Soon, Pauline became pregnant and the couple decided to move back to America. After the birth of their son Patrick Hemingway in 1928, they settled in Key West, Florida, but summered in Wyoming. During this time, Hemingway finished his celebrated World War I novel A Farewell to Arms , securing his lasting place in the literary canon.

When he wasn't writing, Hemingway spent much of the 1930s chasing adventure: big-game hunting in Africa, bullfighting in Spain and deep-sea fishing in Florida. While reporting on the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Hemingway met a fellow war correspondent named Martha Gellhorn (soon to become wife number three) and gathered material for his next novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls , which would eventually be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Almost predictably, his marriage to Pfeiffer deteriorated and the couple divorced. Gellhorn and Hemingway married soon after and purchased a farm near Havana, Cuba, which would serve as their winter residence.

When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Hemingway served as a correspondent and was present at several of the war's key moments, including the D-Day landing. Toward the end of the war, Hemingway met another war correspondent, Mary Welsh, whom he would later marry after divorcing Gellhorn.

In 1951, Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea , which would become perhaps his most famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize he had long been denied.

Personal Struggles and Suicide

The author continued his forays into Africa and sustained several injuries during his adventures, even surviving multiple plane crashes.

In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even at this peak of his literary career, though, the burly Hemingway's body and mind were beginning to betray him. Recovering from various old injuries in Cuba, Hemingway suffered from depression and was treated for numerous conditions such as high blood pressure and liver disease.

He wrote A Moveable Feast , a memoir of his years in Paris, and retired permanently to Idaho. There he continued to battle with deteriorating mental and physical health.

Early on the morning of July 2, 1961, Hemingway committed suicide in his Ketchum home.

Hemingway left behind an impressive body of work and an iconic style that still influences writers today. His personality and constant pursuit of adventure loomed almost as large as his creative talent.

When asked by George Plimpton about the function of his art, Hemingway proved once again to be a master of the "one true sentence": "From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality."

In August 2018, a 62-year-old short story by Hemingway, "A Room on the Garden Side," was published for the first time in The Strand Magazine . Set in Paris shortly after the liberation of the city from Nazi forces in 1944, the story was one of five composed by the writer in 1956 about his World War II experiences. It became the second story from the series to earn posthumous publication, following "Black Ass at the Crossroads."

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  • Name: Ernest Hemingway
  • Birth Year: 1899
  • Birth date: July 21, 1899
  • Birth State: Illinois
  • Birth City: Cicero (now in Oak Park)
  • Birth Country: United States
  • Gender: Male
  • Best Known For: Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists, and is known for works like 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'The Old Man and the Sea.'
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  • Astrological Sign: Cancer
  • Oak Park and River Forest High School
  • Death Year: 1961
  • Death date: July 2, 1961
  • Death State: Idaho
  • Death City: Ketchum
  • Death Country: United States

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Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899–July 2, 1961) is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Best known for his novels and short stories, he was also an accomplished journalist and war correspondent. Hemingway's trademark prose style—simple and spare—influenced a generation of writers.

Fast Facts: Ernest Hemingway

  • Known For : Journalist and member of the Lost Generation group of writers who won the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize in Literature
  • Born : July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois
  • Parents : Grace Hall Hemingway and Clarence ("Ed") Edmonds Hemingway
  • Died : July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho
  • Education : Oak Park High School
  • Published Works : The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, the Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast
  • Spouse(s) : Hadley Richardson (m. 1921–1927), Pauline Pfeiffer (1927–1939), Martha Gellhorn (1940–1945), Mary Welsh (1946–1961)
  • Children : With Hadley Richardson: John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway ("Jack" 1923–2000); with Pauline Pfeiffer: Patrick (b. 1928), Gregory ("Gig" 1931–2001)

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, the second child born to Grace Hall Hemingway and Clarence ("Ed") Edmonds Hemingway. Ed was a general medical practitioner and Grace a would-be opera singer turned music teacher.

Hemingway's parents reportedly had an unconventional arrangement, in which Grace, an ardent feminist, would agree to marry Ed only if he could assure her she would not be responsible for the housework or cooking. Ed acquiesced; in addition to his busy medical practice, he ran the household, managed the servants, and even cooked meals when the need arose.

Ernest Hemingway grew up with four sisters; his much-longed-for brother did not arrive until Ernest was 15 years old. Young Ernest enjoyed family vacations at a cottage in northern Michigan where he developed a love of the outdoors and learned hunting and fishing from his father. His mother, who insisted that all of her children learn to play an instrument, instilled in him an appreciation of the arts.

In high school, Hemingway co-edited the school newspaper and competed on the football and swim teams. Fond of impromptu boxing matches with his friends, Hemingway also played cello in the school orchestra. He graduated from Oak Park High School in 1917.

Hired by the Kansas City Star in 1917 as a reporter covering the police beat, Hemingway—obligated to adhere to the newspaper's style guidelines—began to develop the succinct, simple style of writing that would become his trademark. That style was a dramatic departure from the ornate prose that dominated literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

After six months in Kansas City, Hemingway longed for adventure. Ineligible for military service due to poor eyesight, he volunteered in 1918 as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Europe. In July of that year, while on duty in Italy, Hemingway was severely injured by an exploding mortar shell. His legs were peppered by more than 200 shell fragments, a painful and debilitating injury that required several surgeries.

As the first American to have survived being wounded in Italy in World War I , Hemingway was awarded a medal from the Italian government.

While recovering from his wounds at a hospital in Milan, Hemingway met and fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a nurse with the American Red Cross . He and Agnes made plans to marry once he had earned enough money.

After the war ended in November 1918, Hemingway returned to the United States to look for a job, but the wedding was not to be. Hemingway received a letter from Agnes in March 1919, breaking off the relationship. Devastated, he became depressed and rarely left the house.

Hemingway spent a year at his parents' home, recovering from wounds both physical and emotional. In early 1920, mostly recovered and eager to be employed, Hemingway got a job in Toronto helping a woman care for her disabled son. There he met the features editor of the Toronto Star Weekly , which hired him as a feature writer.

In fall of that year, he moved to Chicago and became a writer for  The Cooperative Commonwealth , a monthly magazine, while still working for the Star .

Hemingway, however, longed to write fiction. He began submitting short stories to magazines, but they were repeatedly rejected. Soon, however, Hemingway had reason for hope. Through mutual friends, Hemingway met novelist Sherwood Anderson, who was impressed by Hemingway's short stories and encouraged him to pursue a career in writing.

Hemingway also met the woman who would become his first wife: Hadley Richardson. A native of St. Louis, Richardson had come to Chicago to visit friends after the death of her mother. She managed to support herself with a small trust fund left to her by her mother. The pair married in September 1921.

Sherwood Anderson, just back from a trip to Europe, urged the newly married couple to move to Paris, where he believed a writer's talent could flourish. He furnished the Hemingways with letters of introduction to American expatriate poet Ezra Pound and modernist writer Gertrude Stein . They set sail from New York in December 1921.

The Hemingways found an inexpensive apartment in a working-class district in Paris. They lived on Hadley's inheritance and Hemingway's income from the Toronto Star Weekly , which employed him as a foreign correspondent. Hemingway also rented out a small hotel room to use as his workplace.

There, in a burst of productivity, Hemingway filled one notebook after another with stories, poems, and accounts of his childhood trips to Michigan.

Hemingway finally garnered an invitation to the salon of Gertrude Stein, with whom he later developed a deep friendship. Stein's home in Paris had become a meeting place for various artists and writers of the era, with Stein acting as a mentor to several prominent writers.

Stein promoted the simplification of both prose and poetry as a backlash to the elaborate style of writing seen in past decades. Hemingway took her suggestions to heart and later credited Stein for having taught him valuable lessons that influenced his writing style.

Hemingway and Stein belonged to the group of American expatriate writers in 1920s Paris who came to be known as the " Lost Generation ." These writers had become disillusioned with traditional American values following World War I; their work often reflected their sense of futility and despair. Other writers in this group included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and John Dos Passos.

In December 1922, Hemingway endured what might be considered a writer's worst nightmare. His wife, traveling by train to meet him for a holiday, lost a valise filled with a large portion of his recent work, including carbon copies. The papers were never found.

In 1923, several of Hemingway's poems and stories were accepted for publication in two American literary magazines, Poetry and The Little Review . In the summer of that year, Hemingway's first book, "Three Stories and Ten Poems," was published by an American-owned Paris publishing house.

On a trip to Spain in the summer of 1923, Hemingway witnessed his first bullfight. He wrote of bullfighting in the Star , seeming to condemn the sport and romanticize it at the same time. On another excursion to Spain, Hemingway covered the traditional "running of the bulls" at Pamplona, during which young men—courting death or, at the very least, injury—ran through town pursued by a throng of angry bulls.

The Hemingways returned to Toronto for the birth of their son. John Hadley Hemingway (nicknamed "Bumby") was born October 10, 1923. They returned to Paris in January 1924, where Hemingway continued to work on a new collection of short stories, later published in the book "In Our Time."

Hemingway returned to Spain to work on his upcoming novel set in Spain: "The Sun Also Rises." The book was published in 1926, to mostly good reviews.

Yet Hemingway's marriage was in turmoil. He had begun an affair in 1925 with American journalist Pauline Pfeiffer, who worked for the Paris Vogue . The Hemingways divorced in January 1927; Pfeiffer and Hemingway married in May of that year. Hadley later remarried and returned to Chicago with Bumby in 1934.

In 1928, Hemingway and his second wife returned to the United States to live. In June 1928, Pauline gave birth to son Patrick in Kansas City. A second son, Gregory, would be born in 1931. The Hemingways rented a house in Key West, Florida, where Hemingway worked on his latest book, "A Farewell to Arms," based upon his World War I experiences.

In December 1928, Hemingway received shocking news—his father, despondent over mounting health and financial problems, had shot himself to death. Hemingway, who'd had a strained relationship with his parents, reconciled with his mother after his father's suicide and helped support her financially.

In May 1928, Scribner's Magazine published its first installment of "A Farewell to Arms." It was well-received; however, the second and third installments, deemed profane and sexually explicit, were banned from newsstands in Boston. Such criticism only served to boost sales when the entire book was published in September 1929.

The early 1930s proved to be a productive (if not always successful) time for Hemingway. Fascinated by bullfighting, he traveled to Spain to do research for the non-fiction book, "Death in the Afternoon." It was published in 1932 to generally poor reviews and was followed by several less-than-successful short story collections.

Ever the adventurer, Hemingway traveled to Africa on a shooting safari in November 1933. Although the trip was somewhat disastrous—Hemingway clashed with his companions and later became ill with dysentery—it provided him with ample material for a short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," as well as a non-fiction book, "Green Hills of Africa."

While Hemingway was on a hunting and fishing trip in the United States in the summer of 1936, the Spanish Civil War began. A supporter of the loyalist (anti-Fascist) forces, Hemingway donated money for ambulances. He also signed on as a journalist to cover the conflict for a group of American newspapers and became involved in making a documentary. While in Spain, Hemingway began an affair with Martha Gellhorn, an American journalist and documentarian.

Weary of her husband's adulterous ways, Pauline took her sons and left Key West in December 1939. Only months after she divorced Hemingway, he married Martha Gellhorn in November 1940.

Hemingway and Gellhorn rented a farmhouse in Cuba just outside of Havana, where both could work on their writing. Traveling between Cuba and Key West, Hemingway wrote one of his most popular novels: "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

A fictionalized account of the Spanish Civil War, the book was published in October 1940 and became a bestseller. Despite being named the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1941, the book did not win because the president of Columbia University (which bestowed the award) vetoed the decision.

As Martha's reputation as a journalist grew, she earned assignments around the globe, leaving Hemingway resentful of her long absences. But soon, they would both be globetrotting. After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, both Hemingway and Gellhorn signed on as war correspondents.

Hemingway was allowed on board a troop transport ship, from which he was able to watch the D-day invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

While in London during the war, Hemingway began an affair with the woman who would become his fourth wife—journalist Mary Welsh. Gellhorn learned of the affair and divorced Hemingway in 1945. He and Welsh married in 1946. They alternated between homes in Cuba and Idaho.

In January 1951, Hemingway began writing a book that would become one of his most celebrated works: " The Old Man and the Sea ." A bestseller, the novella also won Hemingway his long-awaited Pulitzer Prize in 1953.

The Hemingways traveled extensively but were often the victims of bad luck. They were involved in two plane crashes in Africa during one trip in 1953. Hemingway was severely injured, sustaining internal and head injuries as well as burns. Some newspapers erroneously reported that he had died in the second crash.

In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the career-topping Nobel Prize for literature.

In January 1959, the Hemingways moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho. Hemingway, now nearly 60 years old, had suffered for several years with high blood pressure and the effects of years of heavy drinking. He had also become moody and depressed and appeared to be deteriorating mentally.

In November 1960, Hemingway was admitted to the Mayo Clinic for treatment of his physical and mental symptoms. He received electroshock therapy for his depression and was sent home after a two-month stay. Hemingway became further depressed when he realized he was unable to write after the treatments.

After three suicide attempts, Hemingway was readmitted to the Mayo Clinic and given more shock treatments. Although his wife protested, he convinced his doctors he was well enough to go home. Only days after being discharged from the hospital, Hemingway shot himself in the head in his Ketchum home early on the morning of July 2, 1961. He died instantly.

A larger-than-life figure, Hemingway thrived on high adventure, from safaris and bullfights to wartime journalism and adulterous affairs, communicating that to his readers in an immediately recognizable spare, staccato format. Hemingway is among the most prominent and influential of the "Lost Generation" of expatriate writers who lived in Paris in the 1920s.

Known affectionately as "Papa Hemingway," he was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in literature, and several of his books were made into movies. 

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Ernest Hemingway by Sara Kosiba LAST REVIEWED: 29 August 2012 LAST MODIFIED: 29 August 2012 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0022

Ernest Hemingway (b. 1899–d. 1961) was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and spent his formative years there. In addition he spent summers with his family in northern Michigan, a setting that later became the focus of much of his fiction. Hemingway’s search for knowledge and adventure after high school led him to a brief job reporting for the Kansas City Star , and in 1918, during World War I, he enlisted in the American Red Cross. He was wounded in Italy a few months after enlisting and returned to Oak Park profoundly influenced by the experience. In 1921 Hemingway returned to Europe, where he served as a roving correspondent for the Toronto Star and began to refine his craft as a writer with two collections of stories published by Parisian presses. His first American publication was In Our Time (1925), a series of stories and vignettes based on his experiences of northern Michigan and his reporting and travels. The Torrents of Spring (1926), a Michigan-based story and parody of the work of Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein, was a symbol of Hemingway’s break with his mentors and with his initial publisher, Boni and Liveright. All of Hemingway’s major work from that point on was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, where he formed a famous friendship with the editor Maxwell Perkins. Hemingway’s career took off with the publication of The Sun Also Rises (1926), an insightful portrayal of American expatriate life in Europe in the 1920s and one of the first books to show his strong interest in the Spanish bullfighting tradition. A Farewell to Arms (1929), based in part on Hemingway’s own World War I experiences in Italy, became a best seller and helped cement his name in the literary world. Several other novels followed: To Have and Have Not (1937); his Key West novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), which used material from the Spanish Civil War; and Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), set in Italy after World War II. In 1952 The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His prolific literary contributions also include collections of short stories, many of which have appeared in anthologies and textbooks. He also published nonfiction, memoirs, and essays, often about hunting, fishing, and bullfighting, all activities long associated with Hemingway’s life and career. His literary career continued to expand even after his death, with several of his manuscripts adapted into posthumous publications, including A Moveable Feast (1964, revised edition 2009), his memoir of Paris in the 1920s.

Despite the large amount of discussion devoted to Hemingway’s biography and career, there are few full-length, comprehensive overviews of his life and work. Baker 1972 and Young 1966 , for example, are influenced by the fact that both critics began working and writing while Hemingway was still alive and provide a sense of where Hemingway scholarship was at that point in time. Many of these books, while not reflecting the most recent ideas in Hemingway scholarship, do provide strong foundational details necessary to understand Hemingway’s life and work. Waldhorn 1972 provides a good general overview of Hemingway’s career. Donaldson 1977 and Rovit and Brenner 1986 are updated one-volume studies of Hemingway merging biography and criticism. Trogdon 2007 , while not looking at Hemingway’s life in detail, is one of the few detailed studies of his publishing career.

Baker, Carlos. Hemingway: The Writer as Artist . 4th ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.

Focuses primarily on Hemingway’s work between 1920 and 1952. The first two chapters, on Hemingway’s early career, are revised in the fourth edition, and two new chapters on A Moveable Feast and Islands in the Stream , respectively, have been added.

Donaldson, Scott. By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway . New York: Viking, 1977.

Donaldson’s book combines biography and literary criticism. Provides a strong sense of the major themes in Hemingway’s life and work by drawing on biographical information, excerpts from letters, and different works of his fiction.

Rovit, Earl H., and Gerry Brenner. Ernest Hemingway . Boston: Twayne, 1986.

Originally published by Rovit in 1963. Examines Hemingway’s life and work in historical and literary context. The 1986 version has updated references and bibliography along with a chapter focusing on the posthumous works A Moveable Feast , The Dangerous Summer , “African Journal,” and Islands in the Stream .

Trogdon, Robert W. The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribner’s, and the Business of Literature . Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2007.

Overview of Hemingway’s interactions with Scribner’s, his publisher throughout his career. Examines the editing, promotion, and sales of his books and Hemingway’s own influence and interaction in that process.

Waldhorn, Arthur. A Reader’s Guide to Ernest Hemingway . New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1972.

Good general introduction to Hemingway’s writing. Provides chapters on Hemingway’s life and writing style and major themes in his work. Also contains an annotated bibliography of resources and some additional reference material regarding films based on his work.

Young, Philip. Ernest Hemingway: A Reconsideration . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966.

Revised version of Young’s Ernest Hemingway (New York: Rinehart, 1952). Psychoanalytic examination of important themes in Hemingway’s work. Young notes in the 1966 edition that the text is the same other than “changes of tense, deletion of old footnotes and substitution of others, the addition of several details and the striking of a few” (p. iv).

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Ernest Miller Hemingway The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954

Born: 21 July 1899, Oak Park, IL, USA

Died: 2 July 1961, Ketchum, ID, USA

Residence at the time of the award: USA

Prize motivation: “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”

Language: English

Prize share: 1/1

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. When he was 17, he began his career as a writer at a newspaper office in Kansas City. After the United States entered World War I, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. After his return to the US, he became a reporter for American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe. He covered many historic events such as the Spanish Civil War and World War II, including the liberation of Paris. In 1954, he survived two airplane accidents that caused severe pain for the rest of his life.

Between 1925 and 1929, Hemingway wrote some of his major works, such as In Our Time (1924), The Sun Also Rises (1926), and A Farewell to Arms (1929). His succinct and lucid prose had a powerful influence on 20th century fiction. Hemingway’s works explore love, war, wilderness, and loss. The theme of emasculation is also prevalent in his works, most notably in The Sun Also Rises. In 1952, he published The Old Man and the Sea, a work that was praised by the Swedish Academy when awarding the Nobel Prize.

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Ernest Hemingway , (born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Ill., U.S.—died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho), U.S. writer. He began work as a journalist after high school. He was wounded while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. One of a well-known group of expatriate writers in Paris, he soon embarked on a life of travel, skiing, fishing, and hunting that would be reflected in his work. His story collection In Our Time (1925) was followed by the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926). Later novels include A Farewell to Arms (1929) and To Have and Have Not (1937). His lifelong love for Spain (including a fascination with bullfighting ) led to his working as a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, which resulted in the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Other short-story collections include Men Without Women (1927), Winner Take Nothing (1933), and The Fifth Column (1938). He lived primarily in Cuba from c. 1940, the locale of his novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952, Pulitzer Prize). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He left Cuba shortly after its 1959 revolution; a year later, depressed and ill, he shot himself. The succinct and concentrated prose style of his early works strongly influenced many British and American writers for decades.

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Born: July 21, 1898 Oak Park, Illinois Died: July 2, 1961 Ketchum, Idaho American author

Ernest Hemingway, American Nobel Prize-winning author, was one of the most celebrated and influential literary stylists of the twentieth century. His critical reputation rests solidly upon a small body of exceptional writing, set apart by its style, emotional content, and dramatic intensity of vision.

Childhood in the Midwest

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1898. His father was a country physician who taught his son hunting and fishing; his mother was a religious woman, active in church affairs, who led her son to play the cello and sing in the choir. Hemingway's early years were spent largely in fighting the feminine influence of his mother while feeding off the influence of his father. He spent the summers with his family in the woods of northern Michigan, where he often accompanied his father on professional calls. The discovery of his father's apparent lack of courage, later depicted in the short story "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," and his suicide several years later left the boy with an emotional scar.

Despite the intense pleasure Hemingway took from outdoor life and his popularity in high school—where he distinguished himself as a scholar and athlete—he ran away from home twice. However, his first real chance for escape came in 1917, when the United States entered World War I (1914–18; a war in which forces clashed for European control). Eager to serve his country in the war, he volunteered for active service in the infantry (foot soldiers) but was rejected because of eye trouble.

Hemingway then enlisted in the Red Cross medical service, driving an ambulance on the Italian front. He was badly wounded in the knee yet carried a wounded man on his back a considerable distance to the aid station. After having over two hundred shell fragments (parts of bullets) removed from his legs and body, Hemingway next enlisted in the Italian infantry, served on the Austrian front until the armistice (truce), and was decorated for bravery by the Italian government. Hemingway soon returned home where he was hailed as a hero.

Learning his trade

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In 1923 Hemingway published his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. The poems are insignificant, but the stories give strong indication of his emerging genius. With In Our Time (1925) Hemingway drew on his experiences while summering in Michigan to depict the initiation into the world of pain and violence of young Nick Adams, a model for later Hemingway heroes.

Major novels

Hemingway returned to the United States in 1926 with the manuscripts of two novels and several short stories. That May, Scribner's issued Hemingway's second novel, The Sun Also Rises. This novel, the major statement of the "lost generation," describes a group of Americans and Englishmen, all of whom have suffered physically and emotionally during the war.

In December 1929 A Farewell to Arms was published. This novel tells the story of a tragic love affair between an American soldier and an English nurse set against the backdrop of war and collapsing world order. It contains a philosophical expression of the Hemingway code that man is basically helpless in a violent age: "The world breaks everyone," reflects the main character, "and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that it will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of those you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry."

Hemingway revealed his passionate interest in bull-fighting in Death in the Afternoon (1932), a humorous and unique nonfiction study. Hemingway's African safari in 1934 provided the material for another nonfiction work, The Green Hills of Africa (1935), as well as two of his finest short stories, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."

In 1940 Hemingway published For Whom the Bell Tolls, his most ambitious novel. A wonderfully clear narrative, it is written in less lyrical and more dramatic prose (nonpoetry writing) than his earlier work.

World War II

Following the critical and popular success of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway lapsed into a literary silence that lasted a full decade and was largely the result of his strenuous, frequently reckless, activities during World War II (1939–45; a war in which France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States fought against Germany, Italy, and Japan). In 1942, as a Collier's correspondent with the Third Army, he witnessed some of the bloodiest battles in Europe. At this time he received the nickname of "Papa" from his admirers, both military and literary.

In 1944 while in London, Hemingway met and soon married Mary Welsh, a Time reporter. His three previous marriages—to Hadley Richardson, mother of one son; to Pauline Pfeiffer, mother of his second and third sons; and to Martha Gelhorn—had all ended in divorce. Following the war, Hemingway and his wife purchased a home, Finca Vigía, near Havana, Cuba.

In 1952 The Old Man and the Sea was published. A novella (short novel) about an extraordinary battle between a tired old Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. A year later, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Hemingway's declining physical condition and increasingly severe mental problems drastically reduced his literary output in the last years of his life. A journey to Africa planned by the author and his wife in 1954 ended in their plane crash over the Belgian Congo. Hemingway suffered severe burns and internal injuries from which he never fully recovered. Additional strain occurred when the revolutionary Cuban government of Fidel Castro (1926–) forced the Hemingways to leave Finca Vigía.

After only a few months in their new home in Ketchum, Idaho, Hemingway was admitted to the Mayo Clinic to be treated for hypertension (high blood pressure) and depression, and was later treated with electroshock therapy, a radical therapy where an electric current is sent through the body. Made bitter by an illness that humiliated him physically and impaired his writing, he killed himself with a shotgun on July 2, 1961.

Many of Hemingway's unpublished and unfinished works were published after his death. Because of his amazing body of work, and his intense approach to life, Hemingway was arguably one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century.

For More Information

Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Scribner, 1969.

Hotchner, A. E. Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir. New York: Random House, 1966.

Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Plath, James. Remembering Ernest Hemingway. Key West, FL: Ketch & Yawl Press, 1999.

Reynolds, Michael. Hemingway: The Paris Years. New York: Blackwell, 1989.

Voss, Frederick. Picturing Hemingway: A Writer in His Time. Washington, DC: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

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Birthday: July 21 , 1899 ( Cancer )

Born In: Oak Park, Illinois, United States

Ernest Hemingway was a Nobel Prize-winning American writer who touched the pinnacle of fame with his novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ which catapulted him to international glory. Over the course of his writing career, he published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works which greatly influenced later generation of writers. Many of his works were published posthumously and most of them are considered classics of American literature. Born as the first son to well-educated and well-respected parents in Illinois, he had a comfortable childhood during which he developed a keen interest in reading and writing. As a school student, he excelled in English and was a regular contributor to his school newspaper ‘Trapeze’ and the yearbook ‘Tabula.’ An athletic boy, he also took part in boxing, track and field, water polo, and football. He decided early on that he wanted a career in writing and started off as a journalist before becoming a writer of short stories and novels. He went on to serve in ‘World War I’ as an ambulance driver in the ‘Italian Army’ before returning to America and establishing himself as a distinguished fiction writer. In spite of his professional success as a writer, Hemingway’s personal life was a constant struggle with numerous broken marriages and bouts of depression. Deeply troubled by his personal sufferings, he committed suicide in 1961.

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Nick Name: Papa, Hemmy, Wax Puppy, Tiny, Hem, Ernie, Tatie, Wemedge, Ernestoic, Champ

Also Known As: Ernest Miller Hemingway

Died At Age: 61

Spouse/Ex-: Hadley Richardson (1921–1927), Martha Gellhorn (1940–1945), Mary Welsh Hemingway (1946–1961), Pauline Pfeiffer (1927–1940)

father: Clarence Edmonds Hemingway

mother: Grace Hall-Hemingway

siblings: Carol Hemingway, Leicester Hemingway, Marcelline Hemingway Sanford, Ursula Hemingway

children: Gregory Hemingway, Jack Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway

Born Country: United States

Nobel Laureates In Literature Novelists

Died on: July 2 , 1961

place of death: Ketchum, Idaho, United States

Personality: ESTP

Ancestry: American Canadian

U.S. State: Illinois

City: Oak Park, Illinois

Cause of Death: Suicide

awards: 1954 - Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Az oreg halasz es a tenger 1947 - Bronze Star Medal

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was one of the greatest American writers in the 20th-century, and his understated literary stylings have influenced writers for decades. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He had published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. From the beginning of his writing career, Hemingway’s distinctive style occasioned a great deal of comment and controversy.Basically, his style is simple, direct, and unadorned, probably as a result of his early newspaper training.

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.According to A Farewell to Arms, although the book ends with a death and a stillbirth, the main character Frederic himself is nevertheless in a sense reborn, becoming a better, deeper person through his months-long involvement with his pregnant lover. In 1921, Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign 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 the Spanish Civil War where he had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a far cry from the kind of fiction with which Hemingway began. It is an ambitious work on a grand and epic scale, and it deals with war and politics directly in a way that is true of none of the other great Hemingway novels.Some readers found it a more conventional, less pathbreaking book than the best of Hemingway’s earlier efforts, but others welcomed the undeniable improvement it represented over the work that had disappointed so many readers and critics in the 1930s. Finally, it seemed, Hemingway was back on track, and some early critics considered it his best book so far. He had become a conspicuous public figure, and his life seemed almost more interesting than his recent prose.

In 1952, The Old Man and the Sea helped win Hemingway the Nobel Prize, which served to confirm his status as one of the most significant writers in the world.The Old Man and the Sea depicts the epic battle between an elderly deep-sea fisherman, Santiago, and a huge and vigorous marlin. His novel seemed to imply an inspiring lesson that a man might be defeated in practical or worldly terms while still triumphing spiritually and as a person. However, some critics felt that both the story and the prose were too sentimental, and some felt that the work was an exercise in self-pity, with Manolin offering Santiago the kind of hero worship that Hemingway himself so obviously desired.Hemingway’s legacy to American literature is his style: writers who came after him emulated it or avoided it. After his reputation was established with the publication of The Sun Also Rises, he became the spokesperson for the post “World War I generation, having established a style to follow.

His books were burned in Berlin in 1933, “as being a monument of modern decadence”. He avoids the adjective whenever possible, but because he is a master at transmitting emotion without the flowery prose of his Victorian novelist predecessors, the effect is far more telling.His parents disavowed his literature as “filth”. Reynolds asserts the legacy is that “he left stories and novels so starkly moving that some have become part of our cultural heritage”.

In a 2004 speech at the John F. Kennedy Library, Russell Banks declared that he, like many male writers of his generation, was influenced by Hemingway’s writing philosophy, style, and public image. MA ller argues that Hemingway “has the highest recognition value of all writers worldwide. Benson believes the details of Hemingway’s life have become a “prime vehicle for exploitation”, resulting in a Hemingway industry.Benson described him as introverted and private as J. D.

Salinger, although Hemingway masked his nature with braggadocio. In fact, during World War , Salinger met and corresponded with Hemingway, whom he acknowledged as an influence. In a letter to Hemingway, Salinger claimed their talks “had given him his only hopeful minutes of the entire war” and jokingly “named himself national chairman of the Hemingway Fan Clubs.

” Hemingway has often been described as a master of dialog, and most readers agree; however, that Hemingway’s one attempt at playwriting was a failure.The minor planet 3656 Hemingway, discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, was named after Hemingway. The influence is evident with the many restaurants named “Hemingway”; and the proliferation of bars called “Harry’s” (a nod to the bar in “Across the River and Into the Trees”). A line of Hemingway furniture, promoted by Hemingway’s son Jack has pieces such as the “Kilimanjaro” bedside table, and a “Catherine” slip-covered sofa. Montblanc offers a Hemingway fountain pen, and a line of Hemingway safari clothes has been created.

Ray Bradbury wrote “The Kilimanjaro Device,” in which Hemingway is transported to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. The 1993 film “Wrestling Ernest Hemingway,” about the friendship of two retired men in a seaside town in Florida, is named after a story one of the characters (played by Richard Harris) tells about having wrestled Hemingway in the 1930’s. “If a writer of prose knows enough of what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them.The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. (Ernest Hemingway in “Death in the Afternoon”) The story takes place at a train station in the Ebro River valley of Spain.

This particular day is oppressively hot and dry, and the scenery in the valley is barren and ugly for the most part. The two main characters are a man (referred to only as “the American”) and his female companion, whom he refers to as “Jig”. In “Hills Like White Elephants,” everything is boiled down and condensed.The extreme shortness of this story makes its point all the more powerful. Hemingway’s writing is journalistic and no-nonsense; he reports dialogue cleanly and directly, without any fluffy adjectives or fancy descriptions. This tight economy of words is one of the things that made Hemingway so famous in the 1920s, and his distinctive style is still much admired to this day. While the narration might seem cold and detached, emotion is present “ it’s just below the surface.

The more we explore this story, the more we feel what Jig and the man might be feeling, and the more our own emotions try to come to the surface.

Novels by Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

The Old Man and The Sea

The Sun Also Rises

Short stories by ernest hemingway.

  • A Very Short Story
  • Out of Season
  • The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro
  • Up in Michigan

Poems by Ernest Hemingway

  • Along With Youth
  • Champs D’Honneur
  • Chapter Heading
  • Mitraigliatrice
  • Montparnasse
  • Oily Weather
  • Riparto D’Assalto

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Ernest Hemingway | Biography, Facts, Famous Works & Quotes

Ernest Hemingway was an American author who is widely regarded as one of the finest writers of the 20th century . Born in an affluent family, he had fraught relations with his parents. After attending Oak Park and River Forest High School , Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star newspaper beginning his career as a journalist and writer. In 1923 , his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems , was published. Then his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises established him as a major writer of his generation. The most famous work of Ernest Hemingway is Old Man and the Sea , which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and played a key role his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature . Ernest Hemingway married four times in his life and had three children . In later life, he had an issue with depression which led to his suicide in 1961 . Know all about the Ernest Hemingway through his biography, interesting facts about him, his most famous works and his best quotes.

BIRTHJuly 21, 1899 – in an affluent suburb of Oak Park; close to the city of Chicago in Illinois, United States of America.
EDUCATIONOak Park and River Forest High School (1913 – 1917). Did not pursue a college education.
OCCUPATIONNovelist, short story writer and journalist.
KNOWN FORRegarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954). His economical and understated style of writing had a huge impact on future writers.
FATHERClarence Edmonds Hemingway (1871 – 1928)– a well to do physician in Oak Park.
MOTHERGrace Hall (1872 – 1951)– a former musician, opera singer and a music instructor by profession.
SIBLINGS* Marcelline (1898 – 1963) – author and lecturer.
* Ursula (1902 – 1966)
* Madelaine (1904 – 1995) – musician.
* Carol (1911 – 2002)
* Leicester (1915 – 1982) – writer and novelist who also wrote a biography of Ernest Hemingway titled My Brother, Ernest Hemingway.
WIVES* Hadley Richardson (m. 1921; div. 1927) – musician.
* Pauline Pfeiffer (m. 1927; div. 1940) – journalist.
* Martha Gellhorn (m. 1940; div. 1945) – novelist, travel writer and journalist. Regarded as one of the finest war correspondents.
* Mary Welsh Hemingway (m. 1946 – d. 1986) – author and a journalist who covered the Second World War. She remained married to Ernest till his death in 1961.
CHILDREN* Jack Hemingway (1923 – 2000) – fly fisherman, conservationist and writer.
* Patrick Hemingway (born 1928) – author and safari guide.
* Gregory Hemingway (1931 – 2001) – physician and writer. Had a difficult relationship with his father due to his struggle with gender dysphoria.
DEATHJuly 2, 1961 (aged 61) – committed suicide by shooting himself after suffering from depression and paranoia.
PLACE OF DEATHKetchum, Idaho, United States

Formative Years and Family

Ernest Hemingway was named after his maternal grandfather Ernest Miller Hall and was the second born child among five other siblings. At an early age Ernest was forced into playing the Cello on his mother’s insistence, something which he would later admit helped him in his writings . Among his most cherished childhood memories would be the family’s summer trips to Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan . It is here that the young Hemingway learned how to hunt, fish and camp in the woods from his father; early experiences that instilled in him a life-long passion for outdoor adventure and travelling.

Ernest Hemingway as a baby

Later revelations from his sister Marcelline and other sources gave more insight into the Hemingway family and Ernest’s fraught relations with his parents . Marcelline was 18 months older than Ernest but since their mother Grace Hemingway had always wanted twins, she decided to dress up Ernest in little girl clothes to match Marcelline and began to treat them as twin girls . Though dressing up infants alike was not unusual in those times, Grace took her fancies to the extreme. The obsession lasted for some time and Marcelline was even made to drop a year so that both the children could go to the same grade.

Ernest Hemingway with family

Ernest’s third wife Martha Gellhorn would later attribute Ernest’s difficulties with women to his relationship with his mother. She stated: “Deep in Ernest, due to his mother, going back to the indestructible first memories of childhood, was mistrust and fear of women.” Ernest also struggled to connect with his father Clarence, who was a strict disciplinarian and would often beat him with a razor strop. These early impressions would have a lasting impact on Hemingway .

Early writing career and joining the Red Cross

In 1913, Ernest Hemingway joined the Oak Park and River Forest High School as a freshman. He had little interest in the English language at the time and aspired to be a doctor . Good grades in the language along with the inspiration and guidance from teachers would however help him develop a passion for writing in the coming years. At school he would prove himself as a decent athlete in track and field events and played varied sports like boxing, water polo and football . He also performed in the school orchestra for two years with his sister Marcelline. During his last two years, Ernest Hemingway regularly contributed and edited the school’s literary magazine and newspaper (Trapeze and Tabula) , mostly writing about sports.

Ernest Hemingway in 1918

In his senior year, Ernest began thinking about college but the plans soon dissipated as he became more interested in joining a newspaper. In April 1917 as he prepared for his high school graduation, the United States declared war and joined the Allied powers (Britain, France and Italy) in the First World War . In October the same year Ernest moved to the city of Kansas, and with some assistance from his uncle Tyler joined as a cub reporter in the Kansas City Star . Though this job stint lasted only a few months it would play a pivotal role in the writer’s career . The Star’s style guide which advocated short precise sentences and paragraphs, use of vigorous English and positive writing would lay the foundations of Ernest’s own writing style which would further inspire a generation of writers .

The First World War Experience

During his time with the Kansas City Star, Hemingway was also pursuing his effort to join the Great War and serve his country. In December 1917, after being rejected by the U.S. Army for poor eyesight , Hemingway got an opportunity with the Red Cross , who were actively recruiting to aid the efforts on the Italian Front. Hemingway soon joined the organization as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front, finally setting sail for Italy in May 1918 from New York. A month later in Milan, Italy, his first assignment would be a rescue operation to retrieve the shredded remains of female workers at a site of explosion; an incident he would later describe in his 1932 non-fiction book Death in the Afternoon . Ernest would be later posted at the Red Cross base camp in Fossalta , a town in Venice . Here on July 8, he was seriously wounded by shrapnel from enemy mortar fire, while he was bringing chocolate and cigarettes for the men at the front line. Despite his wounds Hemingway assisted Italian soldiers to safety , and was awarded for this brave action with the Italian War Merit Cross , the Croce al Merito di Guerra.

Ernest Hemingway Red Cross

Hemingway spent the next six months in the Red Cross Hospital in Milan, recovering from his wounds. It was also the time he fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky , a Red Cross nurse who was seven years his senior. Returning to America in January 1919, Hemingway hoped that Agnes would join him in some time and the couple would wed, but instead he would only receive the news of her engagement in March . The affair with Agnes left Hemingway emotionally scarred, she would later inspire the character of Catherine Barkley in his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms .

Life in Paris

Post war, Hemingway started working for the Toronto Star as a freelancer and staff writer . He moved to Chicago in December 1920 and also began working as an associate editor for the Cooperative Commonwealth . At this time he became acquainted with Elizabeth Hadley Richards through common friends and began his courtship with her. Hadley like Agnes was seven years elder to Hemingway, and though there were obvious similarities she had a childishness about her which Agnes lacked. The couple were married on September 3, 1921. A few months after his marriage Hemingway was hired as the foreign correspondent for Toronto Star to cover the Greko-Turkish war , and moved to Paris along with his newly wedded wife.

Ernest Hemingway with Hadley Richardson

In Paris, Hemingway became acquainted with the American expatriate writer, art collector and modernist Gertrude Stein . Her Paris salon was the melting pot of modernist art, literature and culture , where Hemingway would meet up with personalities like Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Joan Miro, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse . Stein and Anderson assisted and influenced Hemingway during his early years in Paris, while he shared a special bond with Ezra Pound who would further introduce him to the Irish writer James Joyce.

Gertrude Stein

In 1923 , Hemingway’s first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems , was published. The same year in October, Hadley Richardson gave birth to his first son Jack Hemingway . The child was nicknamed Bumby and Stein was chosen to be his godmother. During this time, while on his visit to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain, Hemingway developed his lifelong passion for bull fighting . In 1925, his first well known work In Our Time was published while his developing friendship with F. Scott Fitzgerald, inspired Hemingway to start working on his own novel .

In Our Time (1925)

1926 marked a pivotal shift in the life and career of Hemingway. It was a time when Hemingway had grown weary of his Paris friends and attacked them in his lesser known parody novel The Torrent of Spring . The controversial book led him to his new publisher and drifted him away from his familiar social circle. Later in the year the publication of The Sun Also Rises became the first step in establishing him as a noteworthy writer of his generation . During the work and publication of the novel, Hemingway also started an affair with an American journalist Pauline Pfeiffer . The relationship led to Hemingway’s second marriage in May 1927 to Pauline and his conversion to Catholicism . This was after he formally separated from his first wife Hadley. Later in 1927, a collection of Hemingway’s short stories Men without Women was released which included his famous boxing story Fifty Grand . In early 1928, Ernest and Pauline had decided to leave Paris for good . They soon travelled to Kansas City , where their first son (Hemingway’s second) Patrick was born on June 28, 1928.

Key West and the Spanish Civil War

After his departure from Paris, Hemingway never lived in a big city and moved to the island of Key West in Florida, USA. In 1929, he went on to produce one of his most famous works A Farewell To Arms . Set in the backdrop of the First World War, the novel was centered around the love affair between an American expatriate Frederic Henry and an English nurse, Catherine Barkley . The book was a bestseller and established Hemingway as a modern American writer of considerable stature . The early 1930s saw the birth of Hemingway’s third son Gregory with Pauline, publication of his bullfighting treatise Death in the Afternoon and his travels to Africa; which would provide material for stories like Green Hills of Africa and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

In 1937, Hemingway took up the assignment for the North American Newspaper Alliance and left for Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War . He raised money for the Republicans in their struggle against the Nationalists under General Francisco Franco , and he wrote a play called The Fifth Column (1938) . During this time he also developed a romantic relationship with travel writer and journalist Martha Gellhorn , a relationship which would culminate in his third marriage and second divorce in 1940 . The Spanish War also provided Hemingway material for his next major novel For Whom the Bell Tolls which was released in 1940 . The book would go on to sell more than half a million copies and earn him a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize.

Move to Cuba and the Second World War

Post the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway went on to purchase the Finca Vigía (“Lookout Farm”) in Havana Cuba and further covered the Japanese invasion of China . In 1944 , during the last years of the Second World War , he was sent to London as a journalist, where he met Time magazine correspondent Mary Welsh and was immediately attracted towards her. Ernest and Martha would end their deteriorating marriage in 1945 , paving way for Hemingway’s fourth marriage with Mary Welsh in 1946.

Ernest Hemingway and Mary Welsh

During World War 2, Hemingway accompanied the troops as a war correspondent in the Normandy Landings of June 1944 . In July he attached himself to the 22nd Infantry Regiment marching towards Paris and witnessed the liberation of Paris in August 1944 . Later that year, he observed heavy fighting in the Battle of Hürtgen Forest and had himself driven to Luxembourg in spite of illness to cover The Battle of the Bulge , where he needed to be hospitalized due to pneumonia . He would later be recognized with the Bronze Star for his bravery in 1947, for having been “under fire in combat areas in order to obtain an accurate picture of conditions” .

Nobel Prize

The period following WW2 saw Hemingway becoming prone to accidents and falling into depression after the death of several of his close friends. In 1948, on a trip to Venice with Mary, he become infatuated with the 19 year old Adriana Ivancich , which inspired his 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees . The negative reviews of the book would prompt Hemingway to draft the Old Man and the Sea in eight weeks, and claim “the best I can write ever for all of my life” . The book was well received and would make him an international celebrity , while finally winning him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954 .

Final Years

In 1954, while travelling to Africa, Hemingway was seriously wounded in two successive plane crashes . In the following years of his life in Cuba he would be mostly bedridden facing several ailments including blood pressure, liver disease and arteriosclerosis . In 1959, Hemingway completed A Moveable Feast , a memoir of his days in Paris; and visited Spain to write a series of articles on bullfighting for the Life Magazine . By now he was having issues in organizing his writing and was suffering from falling eyesight .

Hemingway and Castro in Cuba

In the following year, Hemingway and Mary were forced to leave Cuba when it’s new leader Fidel Castro seemed intent on nationalizing property owned by Americans and other foreign nationals . They moved to a house in Ketchum, Idaho. In early 1960s, Hemingway’s mental condition was also further deteriorating. He had bouts of anxiety and depression , and was often treated with electroshock therapy at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. In April 1961, he was hospitalized once again due to his mental condition, however this time on his return to Idaho, Hemingway decided to end his own life on 2nd of July 1961.

Hemingway's suicide news report

Main Sources

Oliver, Charles M. (1999). “Ernest Hemingway A to Z”. P139-140. Facts on File. Reynolds, Michael (2000). “Literary Masters Vol 2 – Ernest Hemingway”. Gale Group Detroit. Kert, Bernice (1983). “The Hemingway Women”. P83-90. W.W. Norton and Company. Mellow, James R. (1992). “Hemingway – A life without Consequences”. P67, 69-85, 316-318 Addison Wesley Publishing Company. Walsh, John (Oct 23, 2011). “Being Ernest: John Walsh unravels the mystery behind Hemingway’s suicide” . Independent. Sanford, Marcelline Hemingway (1962). “At the Hemingways: a family portrait.” Boyle, Louise. 19 Dec, 2011. “Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter returns to author’s Cuban home to mark 50th anniversary of his suicide” . Dailymail.co.uk. “Star style and rules for writing” . KansasCity.com.

INTERESTING FACTS

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#1 His mother liked to dress him as a girl.

#2 He was the de facto bodyguard for James Joyce.

#3 Hemingway wrote a satirical novel targeting his own friends.

#4 He may have deliberately manoeuvred his way out of a contract.

#5 He made a plan to battle German U-Boats during WW2.

#6 He was formally booked for the contravention of the Geneva Convention.

#7 Hemingway worked for both the Soviet and US Intelligence.

#8 He wanted to ‘liberate’ the Ritz Hotel from the Germans.

#9 Hemingway’s scripts were retrieved from Cuba with the help of the US government.

#10 Hemingway gave himself the nickname “Papa”.

MOST FAMOUS WORKS

RankTitlePublishedType of Work
#10Death in the Afternoon1936Non Fiction
#9The Snows of Kilimanjaro1936Short Story
#8The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber1936Short Story
#7A Moveable Feast1964Non Fiction
#6The Killers1927Short Story
#5For Whom the Bell Tolls1940Novel
#4Hills Like White Elephants1927Short Story
#3A Farewell to Arms1929Novel
#2The Sun Also Rises1926Novel
#1The Old Man and the Sea1952Novel

FAMOUS QUOTATIONS

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.” Hemingway on Hunting
“In order to write about life first you must live it.” Hemingway on Writing
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” Hemingway on Happiness
“Courage is grace under pressure.” Hemingway on Courage
“The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.” Hemingway on Trust
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Hemingway on Books
“When people talk listen completely. Don’t be thinking what you’re going to say. Most people never listen.” Across the River and into the Trees
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” A Farewell to Arms
“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” The Old Man and the Sea
“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.” The Sun Also Rises

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1899–1961 American Journalist, Novelist and Writer

Ernest Hemingway at his typewriter 1939

Military experience, life in europe, critical acclaim, personal struggles and suicides.

ernest miller hemingway biography

Ernest Miller Hemingway ( 21 July 1899  – 2 July 1961 ) was an American novelist, short story writer, 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. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature .

  • 1.1 In Our Time (short story collection) (1925)
  • 1.2 The Torrents of Spring (1926)
  • 1.3 The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • 1.4 Men Without Women (short story collection) (1927)
  • 1.5 A Farewell to Arms (1929)
  • 1.6 Death in the Afternoon (1932)
  • 1.7 A Letter from Cuba (1934)
  • 1.8 Notes on the Next War (1935)
  • 1.9 Green Hills of Africa (1935)
  • 1.10 To Have and Have Not (1937)
  • 1.11 For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
  • 1.12 Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)
  • 1.13 Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
  • 1.14 The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
  • 1.15 Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
  • 1.16 Paris Review interview (1958)
  • 1.17 A Moveable Feast (1964)
  • 1.18 Papa Hemingway (1966)
  • 1.19 Islands in the Stream (1970)
  • 1.20 The Dangerous Summer (1985)
  • 1.21 The Garden of Eden (1986)
  • 1.22 True at First Light (1999)
  • 3 Misattributed
  • 4 Quotes about Hemingway
  • 5 External links

ernest miller hemingway biography

  • Letter to his family (18 October 1918); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker. It was also published in The Oak Parker (Oak Park, IL) on 16 November 1918. Only 19 years old at the time, Hemingway was recovering from wounds suffered at the front line while serving as a Red Cross volunteer.
  • The Toronto Star Weekly (4 March 1922)
  • "Trout Fishing in Europe" The Toronto Star Weekly (17 November 1923)
  • Letter (1924) to Ezra Pound ; published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker, p. 113
  • Letter (6 December 1924); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • "The Age Demanded" in Der Querschnitt (February 1925); as quoted in Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation (1983) by Noel Riley Fitch
  • Letter (15 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to Sherwood Anderson (23 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Domenica del Corriere, 1973
  • About his book, The Sun Also Rises in a letter (21 August 1926); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • "In Another Country" in Men Without Women (1927).
  • "Che ti dice la Patria?" in Men Without Women (1927)
  • Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (15 September 1927); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (4 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (13 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Hemingway's famous phrase in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (20 April 1926), published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker. In the letter, he wrote that he was "not referring to guts but to something else." The phrase was later used by Dorothy Parker in a profile of Hemingway, "The Artist's Reward," in the New Yorker (30 November 1929)
  • Letter to Marlene Dietrich (1 July 1930)
  • Letter (5–6 January 1932); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Nick Adams of "Fathers and Sons" in Winner Take Nothing (1932)
  • The old waiter of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" in Winner Take Nothing (1932)
  • Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (28 May 1934); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to Esquire editor Arnold Gingrich (11 April 1935); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Postscript to letter to critic, poet and translator Ivan Kashkin (19 August 1935); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to Ivan Kashkin, 19 August 1935, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6, 1934-1936 , Edited by Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale & Miriam B. Mandel, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 333
  • Letter to Ivan Kashkin, 19 August 1935, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6, 1934-1936 , Edited by Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale & Miriam B. Mandel, Cambridge University Press, 2024, p. 334
  • Letter (12 January 1936); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," first published in Esquire (August 1936); later published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
  • "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," first published in Esquire (August 1936); later published in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Originally in Esquire "Julian" was named as F. Scott Fitzgerald, who, in "The Rich Boy" (1926) had written: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand..." Fitzgerald responded to this in a letter (August 1936) to Hemingway saying: "Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
  • On Ezra Pound , as quoted in The New Republic (11 November 1936)
  • Introduction to S. Kip Farrington Jr., Atlantic Game Fishing (1937)
  • Address, American Writers Congress, New York City (1937). Reprinted in New Masses (June 22, 1937)
  • "On the American Dead in Spain", New Masses (February 14, 1939)
  • Preface to The Great Crusade (1940) by Gustav Regler
  • Letter (26 August 1940); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • In response to Communist writer Mike Gold's criticism of Hemingway's depiction of the Spanish Civil War in For Whom the Bell Tolls ; as quoted in Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life , New York, Scribners, 1969, p. 459.
  • Introduction to Men at War (1942)

ernest miller hemingway biography

  • Preface to The First Forty-Nine Stories (1944)
  • Letter (9 April 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter (23 July 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to Malcolm Cowley (17 October 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to Malcolm Cowley (14 November 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • As quoted in Paris Was Our Mistress (1947) by Samuel Putnam , p. 128
  • As quoted in "Portrait of Mr. Papa" by Malcolm Cowley in LIFE magazine (10 January 1949)
  • Letter to Arthur Mizener (12 May 1950); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Source: quoted in Lillian Ross's profile of Hemingway, which first appeared in the The New Yorker (13 May 1950). The profile was later published as a short book titled Portrait of Hemingway (1961). Variant: I started out very quiet and I beat Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

ernest miller hemingway biography

  • Letter to Marlene Dietrich (27 June 1950)
  • Letter (9 July 1950); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter (21 February 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter (21 June 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to Bernard Berenson (13 September 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter to Bernard Berenson (2 October 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • Letter (20 March 1953); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker

ernest miller hemingway biography

  • Letter to Bernard Berenson (24 September 1954); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • As quoted in The New York Times Book Review (7 November 1954)
  • Letter (3 July 1956); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
  • As quoted in The New York Post (24 January 1957)
  • White, William, ed (1967). By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway . New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 364.  
  • New York Journal-American (11 July 1961)
  • Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald, as quoted in Scott Fitzgerald (1962) by Andrew Turnbull (1962) Ch. 14
  • As quoted in That Summer in Paris (1963) by Morley Callaghan
  • As quoted in Reporting (1964) by Lillian Ross
  • As quoted in Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Co. (1974) by James Mellow
  • Speaking to his son Gregory, as quoted in Papa, a Personal Memoir (1976) Gregory H. Hemingway
  • On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson
  • Statement to his future wife Mary Welsh, recalled in her obituaries (26 November 1986)
  • From a set of "rules for life" sent to publisher Charles Scribner IV; quoted in Scribner's memoir In the Company of Writers (New York: Scribner, 1991), p. 64

In Our Time (short story collection) (1925)

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The Torrents of Spring (1926)

  • Part 1, Ch. 1 (the opening lines of the novel)
  • The line Yogi Johnson quotes is actually from Percy Bysshe Shelley 's Ode to the West Wind . This is one of several misattributed quotes in the novel.
  • Part 2, Ch. 5
  • Harold Stearns was a once-well-known New York writer and intellectual whom Hemingway knew when they were both living in Paris.
  • Part 3, Ch. 2

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

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  • Robert Cohn to Jake Barnes, in Book 1, Ch. 2
  • Book 1, Ch. 4
  • A bottle of wine was good company.
  • All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
  • Count Mippipopolous, in Book 1, Ch. 7
  • Bill Gorton to Jake Barnes, in Book 2, Ch. 12
  • Book 2, Ch. 13
  • Mike's response is often misquoted as "It occurs first very slowly, then all at once."
  • Lady Brett Ashley to Jake Barnes, in Book 3, Ch. 19
  • Book 3, Ch. 19 (the last lines of the novel)

Men Without Women (short story collection) (1927)

  • The Undefeated
  • In Another Country
  • Hills Like White Elephants
  • Ten Indians

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

  • Catherine, in Ch. 18
  • Catherine and Henry discussing whether he should grow a beard, in Ch. 38
  • One of the alternative endings to the novel, published in A Farewell to Arms The Special Edition .

Death in the Afternoon (1932)

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  • Remember this too: all bad writers are in love with the epic.
  • But waiting for a messiah is a long business and you get many fake ones.
  • There is no remedy for anything in life. Death is a sovereign remedy for all misfortunes.
  • It is always a mistake to know an author.
  • Hemingway's famous iceberg theory of writing.
  • When a man is still in rebellion against death he has pleasure in taking to himself one of the Godlike attributes; that of giving it.
  • The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after.

A Letter from Cuba (1934)

  • All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
  • The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
  • Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.
  • Personal columnists ... are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat — no matter who killed the meat for him.
  • If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.
  • All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Notes on the Next War (1935)

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  • War is no longer made by simply analysed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.
  • We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
  • Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country. ~ Horace in Odes , Book 3, Ode 2, Line 13, as translated in The Works of Horace by J. C. Elgood
  • Hit in the head you will die quickly and cleanly even sweetly and fittingly except for the white blinding flash that never stops, unless perhaps it is only the frontal bone or your optic nerve that is smashed, or your jaw carried away, or your nose and cheek bones gone so you can still think but you have no face to talk with. But if you are not hit in the head you will be hit in the chest, and choke in it, or in the lower belly, and feel it all slip and slide loosely as you open, to spill out when you try to get up, it's not supposed to be so painful but they always scream with it, it's the idea I suppose, or have the flash, the slamming clang of high explosive on a hard road and find your legs are gone above the knee, or maybe just a foot gone and watch the white bone sticking through your puttee, or watch them take a boot off with your foot a mush inside it, or feel an arm flop and learn how a bone feels grating, or you will burn, choke and vomit, or be blown to hell a dozen ways, without sweetness or fittingness: but none of this means anything. No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.
  • The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Green Hills of Africa (1935)

  • Part I, Ch. 1
  • Part II, Ch. 2
  • Sentence in bold quoted by Ralph Ellison in the opening paragraph of his autobiographical essay "Hidden Name and Complex Fate" (1964).
  • Part III, Ch. 1
  • Part IV, Ch. 1

To Have and Have Not (1937)

  • Helen Gordon to her husband Richard Gordon in Ch. 21
  • Often misquoted or inaccurately paraphrased as "In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

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  • For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.
  • If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?
  • That tomorrow should come and that I should be there.
  • Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.
  • Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

Introduction to Treasury of the Free World (1946)

  • We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
  • It would be easy for us, if we do not learn to understand the world and appreciate the rights, privileges and duties of al other countries and peoples, to represent in our power the same danger to the world that Fascism did.
  • No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.
  • An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead.
  • We have fought this war and won it. Now let us not be sanctimonious; nor hypocritical; nor vengeful; nor stupid. Let us make our enemies incapable of ever making war again, let us re-educate them, let us learn to live in peace and justice with all countries and all peoples in this world. To do this we must educate and re-educate. But first we must educate ourselves.

Across the River and into the Trees (1950)

  • Ch. 1 (the opening paragraph of the novel)
  • Renata and Colonel Richard Cantwell in Ch. 12
  • Colonel Richard Cantwell and Renata in Ch. 38

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

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  • He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish the boy's parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week.
  • “Age is my alarm clock,” the old man said. “Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” “I don’t know,” the boy said. “All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.”
  • Every day above earth is a good day.
  • He always thought of the sea as la mar , which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her, but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fisherman, those who used buoys as floats for their lines or had motorboats bought when the shark lovers had much money, spoke of her as el mar , which is masculine, they spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine, as something that gave or withheld great favors. If she did wild or wicked things, it is because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.
  • Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
  • Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.
  • “Fish,” he said, “I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”
  • 'But man is not made for defeat,' he said. 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated.'
  • 'Ay,' he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.
  • Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
  • Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
  • You did not do so badly for something that is worthless. But there was a time when I could not find you.
  • It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. “Nothing,” he said aloud. “I went out too far.”
  • In "On the Blue Water" Appendix originally published in Esquire April 1936

Nobel Prize Speech (1954)

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  • No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
  • Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten. Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.
  • How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
  • A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Paris Review interview (1958)

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  • You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
  • Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
  • I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
  • From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality. That is why you write and for no other reason that you know of. But what about all the reasons that no one knows?
  • The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
  • Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.
  • All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.

A Moveable Feast (1964)

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  • Ch. 8: 'Hunger Was Good Discipline'
  • As quoted by R Z Sheppard in review of The Garden of Eden (1986) TIME (26 May 1986)
  • An assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald , Ch. 17

Papa Hemingway (1966)

  • One battle doesn't make a campaign but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole goddamn war.
  • Ernest's own account of how he once chased away a black bear that had been blocking a road. Pt. 1, Ch. 1
  • As quoted by Marlene Dietrich , who added "In those five words he gave me a whole philosophy." Pt. 1, Ch. 1
  • Pt. 1, Ch. 3
  • On being informed that Faulkner had said that Hemingway "had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary." Pt. 1, Ch. 4
  • Pt. 1, Ch. 4
  • Pt. 2, Ch. 5
  • Pt. 2, Ch. 6
  • Pt. 2, Ch. 7 - Similar to his remark in "A Letter from Cuba" (1934)
  • Pt. 2, Ch. 7
  • On his short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place . Pt. 2, Ch. 9
  • Pt. 3, Ch.12
  • Statement after seeing David O. Selznick's remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957).
  • Pt. 4, Ch. 14 after receiving electric shock therapy for depression

Islands in the Stream (1970)

  • Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 1 (the opening two paragraphs of the novel)
  • Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 4
  • Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 8
  • Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 10
  • Pt. 1: Bimini, Section 14. Thomas Hudson has just learnt that his sons David ('Davy') and Andrew and their mother were killed in a motor accident.
  • Pt. 2: Cuba (a few paragraphs from the end). The 'boy' is Thomas Hudson's last surviving son, Tom, a fighter pilot who was killed in action.
  • Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 6
  • Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 15
  • Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 17
  • Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 19
  • Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 21
  • Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 21 (the last sentence of the novel)

The Dangerous Summer (1985)

  • Ch. 1 (the opening paragraph of the book)
  • Hemingway is describing his friend, the famous bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez .
  • It is July 1959 and Hemingway is in Marceliano's bar in Pamplona, where he has not been since before the Spanish Civil War. In the following paragraph Hemingway mentions for contrast an unpleasant American journalist in his early twenties whose 'handsome young face already showed the traced lines of bitterness around the upper lips.'
  • Luis Miguel Dominguin was another famous bullfighter and friend of Hemingway's.
  • Luis Miguel Dominguin had undergone surgery after being wounded in a bullfight. From the context it is clear that his remark about Hemingway was a joke.

The Garden of Eden (1986)

  • Catherine and David Bourne in Ch. 1
  • Catherine in Ch. 1
  • David and Colonel John Boyle in Ch. 7
  • Colonel John Boyle and David in Ch. 7
  • Marita in Ch. 11

True at First Light (1999)

  • Claimed to be from Men Without Women , but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself .
  • No source in Hemingway's works has been found. May have originated in a 2000 post to the Usenet group alt.support.depression. link

Misattributed

  • The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) by Ursula K. Le Guin , in Chapter 15 "To the Ice"
  • See also https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hemingways-stolen-quotati_b_6868994 .
  • Variant: It is good to have an end to a journey, but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
  • Ken W. Purdy (August 1957) "Portaro; The real story of the sizzling Spaniard" Sports Cars Illustrated (Ziff-Davis: New York) vol. 3 no. 2 p. 63
  • Ken W. Purdy (27 July 1957) "Blood Sport" The Saturday Evening Post (Curtis: Philadelphia) vol. 230 no. 4 p. 92
  • An early attribution to Hemingway is the essay "Why" by Gene Hill , published in Guns & Ammo and reprinted in 1972 in A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds and Guns (Winchester Press: New York) ISBN 0876910762 p. 96: I tend to agree with Hemingway who said something to the effect that only mountain climbing, bull fighting and automobile racing were sports and that everything else was a game.
  • See Barry Popik (May 13, 2012) “Auto racing, bullfighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports—all others are games” The Big Apple

Quotes about Hemingway

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  • Anonymous, answering chicken-cross-the-road jokes in the style of famous writers.
  • 1988 interview in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989)
  • James Baldwin Notes of a Native Son (1955)
  • Dave Barry , You Can Date Boys When You're Forty (2014)
  • Alvah Bessie , Men in Battle: A Story of American in Spain (1939), p. 135
  • Alvah Bessie , Men in Battle: A Story of American in Spain (1939), p. 136
  • Alvah Bessie , Men in Battle: A Story of American in Spain (1939), p. 138
  • Alain Brossat and Sylvia Klingberg, Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism (2016)
  • Hortense Calisher Interview with The Paris Review (1987)
  • Jack Cashill (2005). Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture , Nelson Current, p. 59. Quoting Knightly's The First Casualty (1975)
  • Francis Stewart Campbell, pen name of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1943), Menace of the Herd, or, Procrustes at Large , Milwaukee, WI: The Bruce Publishing Company, p. 216
  • William Faulkner during a Q&A session at the University of Mississippi (April 1947)
  • Natalia Ginzburg Interview (1992)
  • 1982 interview in Conversations with Nadine Gordimer edited by Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990)
  • Josephine Herbst "The Ruins of Memory" (April 4, 1956) in The Nation
  • Erica Jong "Blood and Guts: The Tricky Problem of Being a Woman Writer in the Late Twentieth Century" in The Writer on Her Work edited by Janet Sternburg (2000)
  • 1991 interview in Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston (1998)
  • 1994 interview in Conversations with Ursula Le Guin (2008)
  • Eugene Lyons (1941) Red Decade: The Stalinist Penetration of America , Bobbs-Merrill Company, p. 336
  • Gavin McInnes , " 10 Unbelievable Things I Was Taught In College " Taki's Mag , Nov. 25, 2010
  • Vladimir Nabokov , The Contemporary Writer: Interviews with Sixteen Novelists and Poets , ed. L.S. Dembo and C.N. Pondrom (1972)
  • Naomi Shihab Nye Voices in the Air (2018)
  • Gore Vidal , "Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes," United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
  • Kurt Vonnegut , "The Random House Dictionary" (book review) in The New York Times . Reprinted as "New Dictionary" in Welcome to the Monkey House .
  • Evelyn Waugh , 'Winner Takes Nothing', The Tablet (30 September 1950), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh , ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 392
  • Evelyn Waugh , 'Winner Takes Nothing', The Tablet (30 September 1950), quoted in The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh , ed. Donat Gallagher (1983), p. 393
  • Tom Wolfe , Conversations with Tom Wolfe , ed. D.M. Scura (1990)

External links

  • Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure
  • CNN: A Hemingway Retrospective
  • The Hemingway Society
  • Brief biography at the official Nobel Prize site
  • SparkNotes of The Old Man And The Sea
  • Hemingway's Gravesite
  • 'Hemingway Goes To War' by Charles Whiting
  • The full Paris Review Interview

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Full name:  Ernest Miller Hemingway Nickname: Ernest Hemingway Birth date:  July 21, 1899 Birthplace: Oak Park, Chicago Death date: July 2, 1961 Occupation: Writer Spouse (s): Mary Welsh Hemingway Religion: Atheist Zodiac sign: Cancer

ernest miller hemingway biography

Novel prize winner Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American great novelist, story writer, and journalist. He took part in the First World War as an ambulance driver, also without this profession, Hemingway was a powerful writer. Hemingway wrote two great literary works in American history A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea.

Ernest Hemingway Early Life:

He was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb. His father was a doctor and his mother was a musician, Hemingway was the second of six children. He was named after his maternal grandfather’s name but later he didn’t like his name.

Ernest Hemingway Career:

Ernest Hemingway started a career as a journalist, joining the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter in 1917. Following the year, he volunteered to work as an ambulance driver on the Italian front where he was badly wounded.  In 1919, Hemingway returned to America, and two years later he married.

Following the year, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war, and then two years later resigned from journalist to devote himself to fiction. In Paris, he renewed his previous friendship with such fellow-American expatriates as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a vital role in the formation of his style.

At first, he published three stories Ten Poems, and a satirical novel In Our Time. Hemingway’s next published works Torrents of Springs established his name widely in the United State but he got international recognition by publishing Fiesta, Men Without Women, and A Farewell to Arms which he wrote out of First World War experience.

Ernest Hemingway visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experience in For Whom the Bell Tolls which was a bestseller. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, and big-game hunting, and Hemingway’s writing portrays his experience. In 1954, he was awarded the Novel Prize for Literature for the publication of The Old Man and the Sea.

Ernest Miller Hemingway died on July 2, 1961.

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1898. His father was a country physician who taught his son hunting and fishing; his mother was a religious woman, active in church affairs, who led her son to play the cello and sing in the choir. Hemingway's early years were spent largely in fighting the feminine influence of ...

Ernest Miller Hemingway, a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Ernest Hemingway: A Biography. Courtesy of Knopf Grace Hall Hemingway, his mother. Hadley Richardson, his first wife.

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a musician and opera singer. He was the second of six children. Hemingway's childhood was spent in the conservative suburb of Chicago, where his father taught him to love nature and the outdoors ...

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a physician and his mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, was a musician. Both his parents were greatly respected in their conservative community.

Biography. Ernest Miller Hemingway was one of the greatest American writers in the 20th-century, and his understated literary stylings have influenced writers for decades. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He had published seven novels, six short story ...

The Life of Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois (just outside of Chicago) on July 21, 1899. His father, Clarence, was a medical doctor and his mother, Grace, was a voice and piano teacher. As a young boy, his father taught him how to hunt and fish the untouched wilderness of Northern Michigan.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ ɜːr n ɪ s t ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ /; July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.His economical and understated style—which included his iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations.

BIOGRAPHY Formative Years and Family. Ernest Hemingway was named after his maternal grandfather Ernest Miller Hall and was the second born child among five other siblings. At an early age Ernest was forced into playing the Cello on his mother's insistence, something which he would later admit helped him in his writings.Among his most cherished childhood memories would be the family's ...

Ernest Hemingway is a highly esteemed American author. He was born in Cicero, Illinois on July 21, 1899. Hemingway served during World War I and also worked within the journalism sector prior to publishing a short collection entitled In Our Time. His most famous works include For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and The Sun Also Rises.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, 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 ...

Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American author and journalist, left an indelible mark on 20th-century literature with his distinctive style and adventurous life. Born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway's upbringing in the Midwest shaped his worldview and influenced his literary pursuits. Tragically, he passed away on July 2, 1961 ...

Premio Pulitzer nel 1953 Premio Nobel per la letteratura 1954. Ernest Miller Hemingway (Oak Park, 21 luglio 1899 - Ketchum, 2 luglio 1961) è stato uno scrittore e giornalista statunitense.Fu autore di romanzi e di racconti.. Firma di Hemingway. Soprannominato Papa, fece parte della comunità di espatriati americani a Parigi durante gli anni 1920, conosciuta come la "Generazione perduta" e ...

Gloria Hemingway (born Gregory Hancock Hemingway, November 12, 1931 - October 1, 2001) was an American physician and writer who was the third and youngest child of author Ernest Hemingway.Although she was born a male and lived most of her life publicly as a man, she struggled with her gender identity from a young age.

Ernest Miller Hemingway (ur.21 lipca 1899 w Oak Park w Illinois, zm. 2 lipca 1961 w Ketchum w Idaho) - amerykański pisarz i dziennikarz.Jest autorem takich powieści jak Słońce też wschodzi, Pożegnanie z bronią, Komu bije dzwon oraz opowiadań Śniegi Kilimandżaro i Stary człowiek i morze.Często jest przedstawiany jako klasyczny przedstawiciel literatury amerykańskiej.

Scríbhneoir, údar agus iriseoir Meiriceánach ab ea Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 Iúil, 1899 - 2 Iúil, 1961). Bronnadh an Duais Nobel na Litríochta air. 1918, leis an Chros Dhearg i Milan lena bhean Pauline Pfeiffer, 1927 i bPáras. Saol. Ba dhochtúir é a athair agus b'eisean an dara as seisear clainne. ...

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BLUE VISION for charter

Blue Vision, built by the award-winning Benetti shipyard in 2007, is a fine example of the highly successful Benetti ‘Vision’ range and this yacht has an excellent charter record.  Blue Vision is a 44m motor yacht of true distinction, with an elegant profile and a distinguished dark blue hull.

Blue Vision combines comfort and style throughout, exemplifying Italian design at its most spectacular.  The yacht sports a stunning interior, which was totally renewed in 2017, and she boasts the latest audiovisual technology and communications equipment.  Blue Vision has a modern and light interior décor with wooden floors running through the main saloon, owner’s stateroom and sky lounge. Italian marble is complemented by light sycamore panels and warm, Mediterranean-toned leathers and fabrics are used throughout.   Among Blue Vision’s five spacious cabins is a full-width master suite, positioned on the main deck.  The master features a private office, his-and-hers en suite bathrooms, and offers panoramic views. The master suite also benefits from a completely private deck forward, with a seating and sunbathing area which cannot be accessed from other guest areas.  The four guest cabins, comprising two large doubles and two twins with additional pullman berths, are situated on the lower deck.

Blue Vision’s luxurious interior is complemented by vast outdoor spaces featuring everything required for relaxation and fun in the sun.  Notable attributes include the large sun deck, which is both a sunbather’s haven and a social hub with an optionally-shaded dining and seating area, and a Jacuzzi to aft that’s surrounded by sun beds.  Blue Vision’s upper deck is equally inviting and offers harmonious indoor/outdoor living with full-width circular sliding doors leading out from the sky lounge, and a circular dining area opening to the aft deck and this additional large seating area.  The main deck aft provides another space for guests to dine al fresco.

At anchor, Blue Vision’s swim platform comes into its own and extends to form a beach club; an alternative area for guests to relax as well as providing access to an array of water toys. Her large garage is perfect for storing an array of water sport equipment and toys. Her plethora of water toys including seabobs, waverunners and a fast 300hp/7.6 Zodiac tender makes Blue Vision and ideal charter option for families and friends.

Specifications

  • Name: BLUE VISION
  • Yacht Type: Motor Yacht
  • Series, Model, Class: Vision
  • Builder: Benetti
  • Refits: 2020,2020,2021
  • Length Overall: 43.6 metres
  • Beam: 9.26 metres
  • Max Draught: 2.54 metres
  • Gross Tonnage: 456

Construction

  • Year of Build: 2007
  • Hull Number: BV 08
  • Hull Type: Full Displacement
  • Number of Decks: 3
  • Classification: ABS
  • MCA Compliant: MCA Compliant:

Performance & Capacities

  • Max Speed: 15 kn
  • Cruising Speed: 14 kn
  • Fuel Capacity: 67600 litres
  • Water Capacity: 11200 litres
  • Range: 4000 nm
  • Make: Caterpillar
  • Total power: 2650 hp
  • Superstructure: GRP

Accommodation

  • Passenger Rooms: 5
  • Master Rooms: 1
  • Double Rooms: 2
  • Twin Rooms: 2
  • VIP Rooms: 2

Cruising areas

  • Summer: West-Med

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Sailor’s essential guide to AIS: Everything you need to know

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  • November 21, 2019

Pip Hare argues that AIS is one of sailing’s biggest technological developments of the past decade, but what exactly is it and how can sailors use it to their advantage?

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If I were to pick one development that has revolutionised my own sailing over the past 10 years it would undoubtedly be AIS. Not only has it brought an enhanced level of situational awareness to yachtsmen, but it’s also making huge advances in search and rescue applications. As much as we rely on this system it is sometimes easy to forget its limitations.

A quick recap

AIS uses VHF radio to transmit data gathered from a vessel’s GPS and other navigational sources. Message types are predefined and the number and type of messages received and transmitted depends on the class of AIS fitted.

Class A systems are fitted on all vessels over 300 gross tonnes, all commercial passenger ferries regardless of size and fishing vessels over 15m. Most leisure sailors and smaller vessels choose a Class B system, which transmits a reduced amount of information and can also be receive only.

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Who can see you?

Because AIS is transmitted via VHF, its range is limited to ‘line of sight’. Transmissions can be relayed via base stations (and sometimes satellite for Class A), but topography can still be a barrier so if you are under cliffs or large obstructions it’s possible your AIS signal will be masked to vessels in relatively close proximity.

AIS is not compulsory for leisure vessels, or small fishing vessels, so never assume you have the complete picture – especially when coastal sailing. In busy areas, there’s the perennial question of whether some commercial vessels opt to filter out Class B AIS signals. Regardless of whether this is truth or myth; you should never assume you have been seen. If in any doubt take avoiding action early.

Finally, consider whether you always want to be seen. If passage making in waters where broadcasting your position may be a security risk chose a set with ‘silent mode’. In particular remember this feature when at anchor: if using a GPS alarm that’s part of an integrated system your AIS could be forgotten in the background, broadcasting your position to the world.

How we view information

I prefer viewing AIS data on a plotter when in coastal waters, allowing me to make complete navigational decisions. At sea, I’m happy with a course-up display; with no plotter to distract me I can keep my eyes out of the boat.

Don’t let your current system restrict how you view the data; systems can be adapted and linked to additional repeaters and laptops, while developments in NMEA Wi-Fi now allow AIS data to be viewed on mobile apps. If sailing short-handed or with inexperienced crew, audible alarms can also be retrofitted for peace of mind.

Limitations and useful tools

Proximity alarms.

Get into the practice of ‘trimming’ your proximity alarm to fit situations. When setting a range, consider your speed as well as the potential speed of a closing vessel, the experience level of your ‘on watch’ crew, visibility and environment. Get into the habit of checking your proximity alarm setting regularly, especially if you tend to silence it in busy waters when everyone is on deck.

Look beyond the icon

Remember that the icon you see on a screen is your plotter’s interpretation of a situation. Always interrogate the information behind an icon to understand how reliable it is.

Time of last transmission

Class A vessels transmit every 2-10 seconds depending on their speed. Class B vessels are set to a nominal rate of every 30 seconds, however it could be longer depending on speed and the amount of priority traffic in the area (Class B does not have priority transmission).

Some plotters will continue to show ‘echoes’ of vessels for a number of minutes after their last transmission, and these plots in particular can lead to a false confidence in your situation.

Course, trajectory and CPA

The closest point of approach (CPA) is calculated by your own AIS plotter interpolating each burst of information it receives. The CPA is likely to change with every new burst of information. Always back up with radar, if available, and a confirmed visual identification and relative bearing using a hand bearing compass.

In reduced visibility beware that if a Class B vessel is moving at less than 2 knots the nominal reporting rate drops to 3 minutes. This can make calculating a reliable CPA impossible. It’s also worth checking the rate of turn (ROT) data from Class A vessels: if available it can indicate if a vessel is starting to alter course before the plotter calculation.

MMSI identification

One of the most useful features of AIS, this gives a direct line of communication to another vessel and the ability to clarify you have been seen. Although COLREGS are not keen on the use of VHF for collision avoidance, I’ve found that placing a DSC call using the MMSI and opening a dialogue with the bridge of a ship really helps.

Receivers only

Not all AIS receive-only sets are equal. Some receivers are not able to receive Class B vessel name and call sign, while older sets may not be configured for MOB or SART devices.

Search and rescue AIS is now being integrated into personal MOB beacons and as an additional homing signal for EPIRBs . These applications allow any vessel equipped with AIS to join in search operations, greatly increasing the chances of rescue. When using AIS MOB devices ensure you have tested each one against your mothership’s plotter, so all crew are aware of what an MOB symbol looks like.

First published in the May 2018 edition of Yachting World.

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The current position of BLUE is at Aegean Sea reported 15 mins ago by AIS. The vessel is en route to WAITING FOR ORDERS , sailing at a speed of 0.2 knots and expected to arrive there on Aug 19, 07:00 . The vessel BLUE (IMO 9862231, MMSI 319239400) is a Yacht built in 2022 (2 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Cayman Islands .

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Position & Voyage Data

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Course / Speed 
Current draught5.5 m
Navigation Status Moored
Position received
IMO / MMSI9862231 / 319239400
CallsignZGQT3
FlagCayman Islands
Length / Beam160 / 26 m

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Recent port calls, vessel particulars.

IMO number9862231
Vessel NameBLUE
Ship TypeYacht
FlagCayman Islands
Year of Build2022
Length Overall 160.00
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Gross Tonnage14785
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BLUE current position and history of port calls are received by AIS. Technical specifications, tonnages and management details are derived from VesselFinder database. The data is for informational purposes only and VesselFinder is not responsible for the accuracy and reliability of BLUE data.

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