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His Life

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July 21, 1899

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

Fall 1913

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.

June 1917

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

October 1917

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

May 1918

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.

July 8, 1918

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.

August 1918

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."

January 1919

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

January-May 1920

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

Dicember 1920

Ernest continues his writing experience with Cooperative Commonwealth in Chicago.

September 3, 1921

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

December 8, 1921

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

Aprile 1922

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.

1922

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

July 1923

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

Agosto 1923

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

Ottobre 1923

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

10 ottobre 1923

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

Gennaio 1924

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.

Aprile 1924

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

Giugno e Luglio 1925

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.

Ottobre 1925

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

Maggio 1926

"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.

Ottobre 1926

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

14 aprile 1927

Hadley divorces Ernest

10 maggio 1927

Ernest marries Pauline Pfeiffer in Paris.

Ottobre 1927

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

Marzo 1928

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.

28 giugno 1928

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

6 dicembre 1928

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.

Settembre 1929

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

1933

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.

Agosto 1933

Ernest and Pauline make their first trip to Africa.

Maggio 1934

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

Ottobre 1935

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

Ottobre 1937

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

Aprile 1939

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.

Ottobre 1940

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

4 novembre 1940

Ernest gets a divorce from Pauline.

21 novembre 1940

Ernest marries Martha Gellhorn in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Febbraio - Maggio 1941

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

Gennaio 1942 - Aprile 1944

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."

Maggio 1944

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.

25 agosto 1945

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.

31 dicembre 1945

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

14 marzo 1946

Ernest marries Mary Welsh in Havana.

13 giugno 1947

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

Ottobre 1948

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.

Settembre 1950

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.

28 Giugno 1951

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

Settembre 1952

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!

Maggio 1953

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.

Giugno 1953 - Marzo 1954

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.

Ottobre 1954

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

1956

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

Dicembre 1957

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

Gennaio 1959

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.

Estate 1959

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

Maggio 1960

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.

2 luglio 1961

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.

1936

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.

Novembre 1936

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

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