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  MSN Encarta - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899-1961), American novelist and short-story writer, whose style is characterized by crispness, laconic dialogue, and emotional understatement.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and attended public schools in the area.
Hemingway drew heavily on his experiences as an avid fisherman, hunter, and bullfighting enthusiast in much of his writing.
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 Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works
Ernest Hemingway was born on 21st July 1899 in Oak Park, Chicago.
When Hemingway was six, his grandfather died and the Hemingway family left his grandfather's house (and the house Ernest Hemingway was born in) and moved to a corner lot at 600 North Kenilworth Avenue and Iowa Street.
Ernest's mother taught all her children music and creativity and took them to concerts, art galleries and operas.
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 Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway "believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could only have one end", yet he was blessed with talent and drive.
Hemingway's metaphysical movement in this early period was a shift from juvenile life in Oak Park to the horrors of a full scale war.
For Hemingway the human existence was a struggle between light and darkness, between life and death, and the epitome of this struggle were bullfights, Spain's national sport.
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 Hemingway, Ernest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first son of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in a suburb of Chicago.
Hemingway's love of Spain and his passion for bullfighting resulted in Death in the Afternoon (1932), a learned study of a spectacle he saw more as tragic ceremony than as sport.
The harvest of Hemingway's considerable experience of Spain in war and peace was the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), a substantial and impressive work that some critics consider his finest novel, in preference to A Farewell to Arms.
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/266_17.html   (1966 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway: A Storyteller's Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hemingway was born in the prosperous Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois, to Clarence Hemingway, a family doctor, and Grace Hall, an aspiring opera singer who gave up a possible career for marriage and six children.
Hemingway was an admired hero, nominated for the Italian medal of valor, and touted in newspapers and newsreels at home as the first American wounded in Italy.
Hemingway was in his early forties, and he had become "Papa" with a full beard, casual dress, overwhelming physical presence, strong personality, great wit and charm, and enthusiasm in everything he did--writing, fishing, boxing, drinking, storytelling.
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 Ernest Hemingway Biography     The Childhood Years
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born at eight o'clock in the morning on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois.
Hemingway was raised with the conservative Midwestern values of strong religion, hard work, physical fitness and self determination; if one adhered to these parameters, he was taught, he would be ensured of success in whatever field he chose.
Hemingway graduated in the spring of 1917 and instead of going to college the following fall like his parents expected, he took a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star; the job was arranged for by his Uncle Tyler who was a close friend of the chief editorial writer of the paper.
www.lostgeneration.com /childhood.htm   (643 words)

  
 Hemingway in Africa - Ernest Miller Hemingway on safari in Kenya - the African stories
The legendary American writer Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) was probably the one introducing the Swahili word "safari" to the English language.
Hemingway traveled in East Africa two times in his life and the experiences gave him material for several short stories and novels.
Hemingway almost lost his life on this journey, but it was not as a victim of the Mau-Mau.
crawfurd.dk /africa/hemingway.htm   (802 words)

  
 Ernest (Miller) Hemingway (1898-1961)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hemingway's father took his own life in 1928 after losing his healt to diabetes and his money in the Florida real-estate bubble.
Hemingway attended the public schools in Oak Park and published his earliest stories and poems in his high school newspaper.
In 1960 Hemingway was hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, for treatment of depression, and released in 1961.
www.ukprofind.com /inform/hemingway   (1851 words)

  
 Part1 - ERNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY: A WORKBOOK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hemingway fell madly in love with Agnes, and even though the romance did not work out she would become the prototype for one of his heroines in one of his most important works.
Ernest and Hadley were married on September 3, 1921, at a little church at Horton Bay, Michigan, only a few miles from `Windemere Cottage,' the summer home of the Hemingway's, where they were to spend their honeymoon.
Hemingway bought a sportfishing boat, which he named PILAR, in honor of the shrine, Nuestra Senora del Pilar and the Feria at Zaragoza, Spain and about equally for Pauline, who had chosen it as one of her secret nicknames when she first fell in love with Ernest.
www.cim.mcgill.ca /~mmitran/hem/workbook/papa1.html   (9575 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Hemingway's early short stories and his first novels, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), were full of the existential disillusionment of the “lost generation” expatriates.
A writer famous for his terse, direct style, Ernest Hemingway was also known for the way in which his own life mirrored the activities and interests of his characters.
Hemingway's novels are about man alone, uprooted and facing the Great Enemy (which takes several forms) as bravely as he can.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039962   (821 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: H: Hemingway, Ernest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ernest Hemingway: Simon and Schuster Publishers - Simon and Schuster, publishers of various works of Hemingway, provide a site featuring a biography, picture gallery and information on his books.
Hemingway and the Beasts - Essay on Hemingway by Norwegian writer Jens Bjorneboe.
Hemingway at LiteratureClassics.com - Several student essays on Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms', 'The Sun Also Rises', and 'The Old Man and the Sea', along with quotes, a biography, links and resources.
dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Authors/H/Hemingway,_Ernest   (338 words)

  
 Part2 - ERNEST MILLER HEMINGWAY: A WORKBOOK
Ernest was one of the first to arrive in Paris, while the rest of the correspondents weren't allowed in until much later, causing a great deal of jealously.
Ernest can be seen wearing a checkered shirt as one of the gamblers in the flashback scene when Santiago was arm-wrestling as a young man. Mary can be seen sitting on the veranda of La Terraze, the restaurant, as one of the American tourists at the end of the film.
She knew Ernest was not cured, he "entertained the same delusions and fears with which he'd entered the clinic." She realized in despair he'd charmed and deceived the doctors into the conclusion he was sane.
www.cim.mcgill.ca /~mmitran/hem/workbook/papa2.html   (12011 words)

  
 Anecdote - Ernest Miller Hemingway - Hemingway in Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The family settled in Montparnasse, the hub of the expatriate community, where Hemingway wrote several short stories and his first two novels (Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises, both published in 1926) and became the toast of the town.
Though Hemingway left Paris in 1928, he returned in 1944 as the city was freed from the Germans.
Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899-1961) American sportsman and writer, Nobel Prize recipient (Literature, 1954) [noted for his terse literary style; for his legendary machismo; and for such works as The Sun Also Rises (1926), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952)]
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 RPO -- Selected Poetry of Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961)
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 1899, the son of a doctor.
He became a reporter in Kansas City after leaving school and volunteered on ambulance duty in Italy in World War I, where he was wounded and won the Croce de Guerra.
On July 2, 1961, seriously ill, Hemingway shot himself to death.
eir.library.utoronto.ca /rpo/display/poet154.html   (329 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway Foundation
Join The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park for its annual benefit event on Thursday, November 10th at The Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park.
Salut Hemingway - A Toast to A Moveable Feast is an evening inspired by Hemingway's travels through France and Spain featuring fine wines, cheeses and candlelight dinner at your choice of Café Le Coq or Hemmingway's Bistro, each featuring menus inspired from recipes included in The Hemingway Cookbook by Craig Boreth.
The Ernest Hemingway Foundation fosters understanding of the life and work of Ernest Hemingway with emphasis on his Oak Park origins and his impact on world literature.
www.ehfop.org   (279 words)

  
 IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The paper's author discusses how "Despite the absurd, Hemingway¹s achievement proves that there is a difference between dying at the age of twenty and dying at the age of fifty.
This first chapter from a biography on Hemingway discusses events in the last half of 1940.
This site features photographs, the full text of many articles and essays on Hemingway and his work, reviews of the author's writings and of biographies written about his life, dispatches written by Hemingway during the Spanish Civl War, interviews with the author, and other material.
www.ipl.org /div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=hem-3   (749 words)

  
 Ernest Miller Hemingway Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature
Ernest Miller Hemingway Winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature
Hemingway Letters Given to JFK Library Said to Bridge Gap
Hemingway and Oak Park (submitted by Jennifer Wheeler, Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park)
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 Anecdote - Ernest Miller Hemingway - Hemingway & Welles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Anecdote - Ernest Miller Hemingway - Hemingway & Welles
"The Spanish Civil War, the second of three wars in which Hemingway saw action, and the one which produced his novel 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' was the most politically committed time of his life.
At a viewing of the film, described by Welles in 'Cahiers du Cinéma,' he and Hemingway came to blows, going at each other with chairs and fists, as the armies fought it out on the screen in front of them.
www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=14733   (268 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Rare historical recordings of Ernest Hemingway speaking and reading his works Ernest Hemingway Reads
Mariel Hemingway narrates this feature-length profile of her grandfather from AandE Biography
All Literature Awards site contents are copyrighted © 2004 by J M McElligott and may not be published in any form.
www.literature-awards.com /nobelprize_winners/ernest_hemingway.htm   (87 words)

  
 RPO -- Ernest Miller Hemingway : Chapter Heading
RPO -- Ernest Miller Hemingway : Chapter Heading
1] Gerogiannis points out Hemingway's allusion to Longfellow's "My Lost Youth":
Original text: Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories and Ten Poems (Dijon: Maurice Darantiere, 1923): 58.
eir.library.utoronto.ca /rpo/display/poem941.html   (102 words)

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