1899 ��� Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in
1900 ��� Goes with his family to their summer cottage
called Windemere in northern
1905 Enters first grade in same
class with sister Marcelline, 18 months his elder.
1913 Attends Oak Park and
1917
Graduates from high school in June, takes job as cub reporter on the Kansas
City Star in October.
1918 On May 23 sails to
Badly wounded in Fossalta July 8 while distributing chocolate and cigarettes
to troops.
Meets and
falls in love with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky
while recuperating in
1920 Marries Hadley Richardson
September 3.
Provided
with letters of introduction from Sherwood Anderson, the newlyweds leave for
1922���� In
In December,
Hadley takes the train to
1929 Goes to
Briefly
returns to
1924��� Assists Ford Madox
Ford in editing the transatlantic review, which prints Indian Camp and other early stories.
Brings out slim In Our Time volume.
1925�� In Our
Time appears, containing several stories set in
In May,
meets and befriends the somewhat older and more established writer F. Scott
Fitzgerald.
1927�� Publishes Men without Women, a story collection including Hills Like White Elephants and The Killers.
Divorced by Hadley, marries Pauline
Pfeiffer.
1928
Leaves Paris, moves to
Son Patrick born.
His
father, Dr. Hemingway, kills himself with a .32 revolver.
1929 A Farewell to Arms -- a novel
of love and war in Italy during World War I -- published in September to good
reviews and sales, despite Boston censorship of the serialized version in
Scribner's magazine.
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1930 Breaks arm in auto
accident near
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literary journal procedures and a list of questions students may answer
while they are writing
1931��� Son Gregory Hancock born.
1932��� Brings out his book on bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon.
1933��� Publishes Winner Take Nothing, a book of stories
including A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.
Goes on safari to
1935��� Green Hills of
Works on
propaganda film The Spanish Earth.
Contributes funds to the Loyalist cause.
Publishes To Have and
Have Not, his most overtly political novel.
1939��� Publishes The Fifth Column and The First Forty-nine Stories, comprising
a lay about the war in
1940 Marries writer Martha Gelhorn.
Publishes For Whom the
Bell Tolls, his best-selling novel about a band of guerrillas during the
war in
1942
Outfits his boat the Pilar to hunt down German
submarines in the
1944��� As correspondent, observed D-day and
attaches himself to the 22nd Regiment, 4t' Infantry Division for operations
leading to the liberation of
1945��� Divorced by Martha in December
1946��� Marries Mary in March; they live in
1950��� Publishes Across the River and into the Trees, a novel
about a December-May romance widely attacked by critics.
1952�� The Old Man and the Sea, his short book
about the trials of the Cuban fisherman
1953��� In January,
severely injured by two successive plane crashes in
Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
1959��� In declining
health, follows the Antonio Ordez and Luis Miguel Dominguin bullfights and observes his sixtieth birthday in
1961��� Undergoes shock
treatment for depression. On July 2, kills himself with shotgun. Buried in
1964 A Moveable Feast is
published, with vivid and sometimes abusive sketches of people Hemingway knew
in
1970 Islands in the Stream, a semi-autobiographical novel about the painter Thomas Hudson and
his family relationships.
1972 The Nick Adams Stories gathering
in one volume all of the fiction about Nick, including several previously
unpublished stories and fragments.
1982 Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters edited by Carlos Baker, containing some of the most
interesting of Hemingway's correspondence.
1985 The Dangerous Summer appears, an
account of the Antonio Ordez and Luis Miguel Dominguin bullfight rivalry.
Dateline Toronto: The Complete
Toronto Star Dispatches appears, bringing together
the journalistic work Hemingway did during the apprenticeship years 1920-24.
1986 The
Garden of Eden," a substantially cut and rearranged version of the
manuscript Hemingway left behind, recounting love affairs involving two women
and one man, and causing many to revise their opinions about the writer's macho
image.
The
Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway appears,
assembling the first forty-nine stories and a number of other, previously
uncollected ones.