Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

The Ernest Hemingway Biography Ernest Hemingway was celebrated as one of the world’s most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born on July 21, 1899 in Cicero, Illinois (now known as Oak Park, Ill.), he was named Ernest Miller Hemingway by his father Clarence Hemingway, a physician, and mother Grace Hall, a music teacher (Ernest Miller Hemingway). Ernest Hemingway was only one of the five children that Clarence and Grace Hemingway would have. Raised in Chicago during his adolescent years and vacationing in northern Michigan, Hemingway was able to “find material for his early fiction: events of sudden tragedy and pathos endured by the local Indians; the life and death consciousness of a hunter or fisherman” (Baughman). As a child,

By January 1927, Elizabeth and Ernest were divorced and set up separate residences (Sons 3). On May 10, 1927, Hemingway and Pfeiffer were married in Paris. They returned to the United States in the spring of 1928 so that Pfeiffer could bear her first child on American soil. The Hemingway’s settled in Key West, Florida where Hemingway love of fishing would grow. Patrick Hemingway was born on June 28, 1928, and would also play a part in his story “A Farewell to Arms”. In the winter of that same year, Hemingway would receive a notice that his father had committed suicide. According to John Walsh, this was the reason for Hemingway committing suicide in 1961 (Walsh). In the beginning of 1929, Hemingway would write up his final draft for “A Farewell to

Hemingway was said to have predicted World War II when he saw the rise of Hitler and would soon join Europe in the war. Martha was not happy with Hemingway’s actions of attempting to join the war. Hemingway would start a love affair with Mary Welsh, his fourth and final wife. Like the rest of his marriages, they all deteriorated as soon as his new love affair took over. He would divorce Martha on December 1945 and would marry Mary Welsh on March 14, 1946 in Havana, Cuba. In 1952, Hemingway would publish his next greatest book, “The Old Man and The Sea.” This story would earn Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He would also win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his “gift of ‘tragic pathos’” (Brady). Unable to accept the prize due to his health, he wrote an acceptance speech for the American ambassador to read for