His Life

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, (USA). His parents were Dr. Clarence Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway.

He enrolls at Municipal High school in Oak Park. He plays the cello in the school's little orchestra. He cultivates his passion for boxing and becomes captain of the water polo team.

Ernest attended high school and wrote his first articles as an editor in the school newspaper and some literary magazines.

Ernest goes to Kansas City and begins his work as a reporter for the Kansas City Star.

Ernest enlists as a volunteer and ambulance driver for the American Red Cross and arrives in Italy on the front lines of World War I.

Ernest is in Fossalta di Piave when he is wounded by a mortar shell and in a heroic act tries to save an Italian soldier. This action earns him the Silver Medal of the Royal Italian Army and the American Bronze Cross for military valor. He is in fact a war hero.

Ernest is taken for treatment to Milan where he will find as many as 18 nurses ready to care for him. With one of them, Agnes von Kurowsky, an American with a Russian father, a sentimental affair is born. An intense love for this nurse a few years older than him, which, however, eventually melts away. It will inspire him to later write the novel "Fareweel to Arms."

Ernest returns to America to Oak Park; he is widely considered a war hero.

Ernest lives in Toronto and writes early articles for the Toronto Stars.

Ernest continues his writing experience with Cooperative Commonwealth in Chicago.

Ernest marries Hadley Richardson in Horton Bay, Michigan, and together they move to Chicago.

Ernest and Hadley move to Paris, where Ernest works as a freelance correspondent for the Toronto Stars.

Sent as a reporter for the Toronto Stars he travels to Genoa for the International Economic Conference. On his way back from Milan he meets and interviews Mussolini, who impresses him and leaves a good impression. A few months later after the March on Rome he calls Mussolini the biggest bluff in Europe.

He makes a trip to the front lines of the Greco-Turkish war in Thrace as a reporter.

Ernest makes his first trip to Spain, a land he will love dearly, along with Robert Mcalmon and Bill Bird.

"Three stories and ten Poems" viene pubblicato da Robert McAlmon Contact edit in Paris

Ernest and Hadley return to America in Toronto and Hemingway writes as a reporter for the Toronto Stars.

Ernest's first son is born in Toronto, his name is John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway known as Bumby.

Ernest, Hadley and Bumby return to Paris, and Ernest publishes in the Trans-Atlantic review. He becomes deputy editor, but after 6 months suffers an attack by T.S. Eliot and loses that position.

It is published in Our Time edited by Three Mountains Press.

On the advice of Gertrude Stein, Ernest and Hadley travel to Spain for the second time to attend the Feast of San Firmino in Pamplona.

"Our Time" is published by the American publishing house Boni and Liveright.

"Torrents of spring" was published by Scribner's, which would later publish all his most famous novels. Hemingway was introduced to this publisher by his friend Scott Fitzgerald.

Scribner's itself published the first edition of "The Sun Also Rises," which would later become famous as "Fiesta."

Hadley divorces Ernest

Ernest marries Pauline Pfeiffer in Paris.

Scribner's publishes a new work by Ernest: "Men without woman."

The Parisian epic comes to a close, Ernest and Pauline move to Key West, Florida. He, who has loved fishing since he was a boy, begins to love deep-sea fishing.

Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's second son, is born in Kansas City.

A shot from an old American Civil War revolver takes the life of his father, suicide, Clarence Hemingway in Oak Parks, Illinois.
Ernest at this stage cannot accept this event because he considers it an act of cowardice by his father.

Scribner's publishes another Hemingway masterpiece "A Farewell to Arms." Another immensely successful work, as with "The Sun Also Rises."

He becomes a contributor to Esquire, which pays him very well to get his articles, but he also writes for Cosmopolitan, Ken, and New Masses.

Ernest and Pauline make their first trip to Africa.

Ernest orders from Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn his own fishing boat which he will name Pilar.

New book comes out as a result of exciting trip to Africa. Scribner's publishes "Green Hills of Africa."

Scribner's publishes "To Have and Have Not."

Ernest leaves his wife Pauline, buys Finca vigia, his estate in Cuba that is located a short distance from Havana. He moves to the Cuban island with Martha Gellhorn.

Ernest publishes with Scribner's another masterpiece, "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

Ernest gets a divorce from Pauline.

Ernest marries Martha Gellhorn in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Ernest accompanies Martha, who is to make a report on the conflict between China and Japan, on a trip to China.

Ernest convinces U.S. intelligence to get fuel and arm his boat the Pilar, which is in truth a simple fishing shanty, to look for German submarines that might cross off Cuba. He will never see a submarine, but he will have the fuel in the midst of war and limitation of fuel use, to cruise the Caribbean seas. Edits the anthology "Man in war."

The relationship with third wife Martha begins to crack. She wants to return to cover a conflict and Collier's sends her as a war reporter. Hemingway convinces the paper to have the same role and becomes a war correspondent in World War II.
He participates in the Normandy landings in the second lines but then following some infantry divisions will enter occupied Paris with guerrilla actions before General Leclerc.

Hemingway liberates the Hotel Ritz in Paris from the Nazis leading a group of French partisans. He is one of the very first Americans to enter Paris.

Ernest divorces Martha, meanwhile in London he met future fourth wife Mary Welsh.

Ernest marries Mary Welsh in Havana.

Ernest receives the Bronze Cross from the U.S. Embassy in Havana for his service as a war correspondent in France and Germany.

Ernest and Mary are in Italy for a few months and a meeting takes place between the American novelist and the very young contessina Adriana Ivancich, with whom Ernest himself will be fascinated and enamored.

Ernest publishes with Scribner's the new, very intimate novel with a cold reception from critics and audiences, "Across the River and into the Trees." Some critics call him a finished writer.

Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, died in Memphis, Tennesseee. The relationship, however, with his mother had severely soured over time.

Scribner's publishes what many consider Hemingway's finest book, " The Old Man and the sea." Released first in Life magazine it had sold over 5 million copies in just two days!

Ernest was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, which he had already touched in 1940 with his book "For Whom the Bell Tolls." That year (1940) then it was not awarded because of the war.

Ernest and Mary make trips to Spain and Africa. And on their way back to Africa, the Hemingway couple escapes a double plane crash. In the first they disappear for two days and obituaries are published around the world denouncing Hemingway's death, while in the second crash Hemingway suffers very serious injuries and will struggle to recover.

Ernest is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but less than optimal conditions, prevent him from flying to Sweden to receive it in person.

Spencer Tracy interpreta Santiago nel grande film "Il vecchio e il mare".

In Cuba Ernest began writing "A Moveable Feast," which would later be his first posthumously published book.

Fidel Castro takes power in Cuba, Batista leaves the island. Ernest is forced to buy a house in Idaho, in Ketchum, and can never return to his beloved Finca Vigia. At his estate he must leave behind his beard, notes, writings and his beloved library. It is a hard blow for a man who is beginning to feel the weight of age, of increasingly precarious health.

Ernest and Mary make a new trip to Spain, and the American novelist begins the writing of "The Dangerous Summer."

After an intense revision Ernest completed and struggling with his condition, he serialized "The Dangerous Summer" in Life. His last published work in his lifetime.

Ernest goes to the cellar at dawn, when his wife Mary is still asleep. He takes a shotgun of his own and commits suicide, shooting himself in the head. He dies instantly. He dies in Ketchum, Idaho.

Raccoglie fondi per i repubblicani impegnati nella guerra civile spagnola con i quali comprerà ambulanze per i feriti. Progetta con John Dos Passos e A. MacLeish il film Terra di spagna. Segue da Madrid l’evolversi del conflitto interno spagnolo che segna però le basi dell’espansione del Nazismo in Europa.

Ernest viene ingaggiato da NANA (North American Newspapers Alliance) come corrispondente di guerra per la guerra civile spagnola.