ERNEST HEMINGWAY

 

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist. The name of Ernest Hemingway is definitely installed among the great American writers. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a village near Chicago in 1899, and he lived his childhood there. Ernest Miller Hemingway was a short-story writer, journalist, and sportsman. Hemingway wrote most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

 

 

In 1921, Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. They moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. He started writing in Paris and his first novel was ‘The Sun Also Rises’, which was published on October 22, 1926. He divorced Hadley Richardson in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War. He left for Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance in 1937. There he met Martha Gellhorn, who became his third wife in 1940; they separated after he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. He wrote, in 1952, 'The Old Man and the Sea', a work for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.

 

He had a full life. This video explains much more about his life: Ernest Hemingway: Life of a Hundred Men.

 

Hemingway’s work is mostly about the themes of love, war, travel, wilderness, and loss. His most known work are:

●     ‘In Our Time’, written in 1925

●     ‘The Sun Also Rises’, written in 1926

●     ‘A Farewell to Arms’, written in 1929

●     ‘To Have and Have Not’, written in 1937

●     ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, written in 1940

●     ‘The Old Man and the Sea’, written in 1952.

‘The Sun Also Rises’ is one of the stories for which he is known. The novel was first published in October 1926 in the United States by Scribner's Magazine. A year later, the novel was published in London under the title ‘Fiesta’. It remains so in print. This is a book trailer of the book: The Sun Also Rises.

 

 

‘In Our Time’ is Ernest Hemingway’s first collection of short stories, published in 1925 by Boni & Liveright, New York. Its title is derived from the English Book of ‘Common Prayer. The collection’s publication history was complex. It began with six prose vignettes commissioned by Ezra Pound for a 1923 edition of ‘The Little Review’; Hemingway added twelve more and in 1924 compiled the ‘In Our Time’ edition and printed in Paris.

 

‘The Old Man and the Sea’ was published also by the Scribner's Magazine in the United States in 1952. Written in 1951, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ is Hemingway's final full-length work published during his lifetime. It was simultaneously published in book form and highlighted in Life magazine on September 1, 1952. The first edition print run of the book was 50,000 copies and five million copies of the magazine were sold in two days. In 1953, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. This is a book trailer of the book: The Old Man and the Sea.