Ernest Miller Hemingway
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born on
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Victorian
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lifelong depressions
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he would explore, camp, fish
and hunt with his physician father, Dr. Clarence "Ed"
Hemingway
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an American author
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reported and wrote articles,
poems and stories for his high school's publications largely
based on his direct experiences
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after high school}
starting writing for the Kansas City Star (a newspaper)
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"Brevity, a
reconciliation of vigor with smoothness, the positive approach"
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on Italian/Austrian front in
WW1
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Silver Medal of Military
Valor
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mentored by Gertrude Stein
and Ezra Pound in
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Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for
The Old Man and the Sea
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Nobel Prize in literature in
1954 also for The Old Man and the Sea
"powerful, style- making mastery of the art of modern
narration."
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suicide July, 1961, in
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The Ernest Hemingway
Foundation of