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Ernest Hemingway Foundation, to Keep Alive and Improve/Develop Literature and Forms of Composition and Expression Born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois He was the second of six kids Hemingway's mother, a music teacher and director of the church choir, spent her time with the kids educating them on music, art, concerts, and operas His father, a physician, taught them of the joy of being in nature, Hemingway took this knowledge and love of nature everywhere he went. After high school, he worked as a writer for the Kansas City Star for six months Hemingway wished to sigh up for the war, but due to a glass eye was denied After witnessing a man stranded at the union station, left to die because of small pox and nearby peoples fear to approach him, Hemingway took up the path of an ambulance driver. Lived the life of a celebrity Minimalist Hemingway employed a distinctive style which drew comment from many critics At the beginning of his career Hemingway did not give way to lengthy geographical and psychological description. Though later he used he vividly described nature. His style had been said to lack substance because he avoids direct statements and descriptions of emotion. Later he began to write more deeply into emotions, mostly discussing death and providing a detailed picture in the readers mind Style seen as direct and simple He used his senses as the center for his writing Believed the mind was “treacherous and abstract” Wrote in an unconventional style, with the problems of war, violence and death as their themes, presenting a symbolic interpretation of life. While working in Michigan, Hemingway met Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, an inexperienced and naïve girl, educated at an all girls school. They married in 1920 at Horton Bay. Soon after the marriage, the two moved to Europe, mostly living in Paris and Italy, where Hadley became pregnant Hemingway and his wife left for Canada in order to have the baby boy on American soil, John Hadley Nicanor, where he decided to give up journalism, and focus on novels in 1924 Divorced after Hadley discovered his affair with Pauline Pfeiffer Trying to make up for his cheating, he dedicated, “The Sun also Rises”, to Hadley and their son. And later due to extreme guilt, gave all the royalties to his son from, “The Torrents of Spring” as well. During his time between wives, he was alone and extremely depressed, even talking of suicide. Wrote “Another Country” On May 10, 1927, he married Pauline Pfeiffer They moved to the key West, which Hemingway thought of as paradise In 1928 His father shot himself, leaving him in charge of another family. He wrote “Farewell to Arms” to support her and her two young sons After Giving birth to two sons, Hemingway and Pfeiffer divorced due to his leaving them for his friends for long periods of time, and yet another affair with Martha Gelhorne. After only 4 years with Gelhorne, he could not take being with a woman who had a career. He fell in love with Mary Welsh, effectively ending his marriage with Gelhorne. In 1946, he married Mary Welsh, whom he stayed with till his death. Extremely injury prone(here is a list of just a few of the many problems he suffered from) Left eye defective from birth Concussed and wounded by machine gun and jaundice -1918 Malaria- 1922 Anthrax in cut foot-1927 Kidney problems-1929 Car accident, breaks right arm-1930 Bronchial pneumonia-1932 Amoebic dysentery; prolapsed large intestine, blood poisoning in the right index finger.- 1934 Shoots himself in legs gaffing shark -1935 Second concussion when car strikes water tank in blackout-1944 Third concussion jumping from motorcycle into ditch; suffers double vision and impotence. – 1944 Car overturns; head goes into mirror, knee injured-1945 Two plain crashes in Africa and severe burns fighting fire-1954 Car goes off road near Burgos-1959 Death-1961 He referenced his style of writing from Pound and Stein Mark Twain, the War and The Bible were the major influences that shaped Hemingway's thought and art. The writings of Joseph Conrad His own experience in the wars Accomplishments and influence on American Literature Won the Pulitzer prize in 1953 for, “The Old Man and the Sea” He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954, and his novels The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) were included on a 1998 list of the top one hundred novels of the twentieth century Its been said that Hemingway's short fiction is what changed American fiction Two of his posthumously published books are the admired memoir of his apprentice days in Paris: A Moveable Feast (1964), and Islands in the Stream (1970), consisting of three closely related novellas. Best considered Novels were , “The Sun Also Rises” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” In 1960 Hemingway was hospitalized at the mayo clinic in Minnesota for depression Given shock therapy for two months, with no success On July 2, 1961 He killed himself at his home in Idaho, with his favorite hunting shotgun Mary Welsh started, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation, to keep alive and improve/develop literature and forms of composition and expression Novels: The Torrents of Spring (1925) The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929) To Have and Have Not(1937) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Adventures of a Young Man (1962) Islands in the Stream (1970) The Garden of Eden (1986) Death in the Afternoon (1932) Green Hills of Africa (1935) The Dangerous Summer (1960) A Moveable Feast (1964) Short Stories: Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) In Our Time (1925) Men Without Women (1927) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1932) Winner Take Nothing (1933) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) “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.” “A man can be destroyed but not defeated. “ “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Nina Baym. W.W. Norton & Company. New York. Volume D. pg 1980-1981 Introducing Ernest Hemingway, Professor Ganesan Balakrishnan, Ph.D Head, PG & Research Dept. of English, Pachaiyappa's College (Affiliated to the University of Madras), Chennai-30, Tamil Nadu, India, February 2003, Written and designed by Sherri Byrd, Ashley Lawler, and Misty Wilson, students, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, 1997 Edited by Mark Canada, Ph.D., professor of English, University of North Carolina at Pembroke http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/heming.htm Caroline Hulsehttp://www.ernest.hemingway.com/ 1999-2011. copy write date. "Ernest Hemingway - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 5 Oct 2011 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html Authors' Calendar jonka tekijä on Petri Liukkonen on lisensoitu Creative Commons Nimeä-Epäkaupallinen- Ei muutettuja teoksia 1.0 Suomi (Finland) lisenssillä. .
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