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 Ernest Hemingway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hemingway divorced Hadley Richardson and married Pauline Pfeiffer, a devout Roman Catholic from Piggott, Arkansas, in 1927.
Hemingway's injuries were serious; he sprained his right shoulder, arm, and left leg, had a grave concussion, temporarily lost vision in his left eye (and the hearing in his left ear), had paralysis of the sphincter, a crushed vertebra, ruptured liver, spleen and kidney, and first degree burns on his face, arms, and leg.
Hemingway attempted suicide in the spring of 1961, and received ECT treatment again, but this was unable to prevent his suicide on the morning of July 2, 1961 as a result of a self-inflicted shotgun blast to the head at the age of 61.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernest_Hemingway   (5272 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's protagonists are typically stoic male individuals, often interpreted as projections of his own character, who must master "grace under pressure".
Hemingway was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, known as "The Lost Generation," a name coined and popularized by Gertrude Stein.
Hemingway was released from his contract with Boni and Liveright when the publisher turned down the manuscript of The Torrents of Spring, a Fieldingesque parody of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter (1925).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ernest-Hemingway   (1011 words)

  
 Malaspina Great Books - Ernest Hemingway (1899)
Hemingway "believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could only have one end", yet he was blessed with talent and drive.
Hemingway frequently used images to produce the dense atmosphere of violence and death his books are renowned for, the main image of For Whom the Bell Tolls is the machine image.
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.
www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=270   (8027 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway Biography     The Childhood Years
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 never had a knack for music and suffered through choir practices and cello lessons, however the musical knowledge he acquired from his mother helped him share in his first wife Hadley's interest in the piano.
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)

  
 CNN - A Hemingway Retrospective - Ernest Hemingway: A Centennial Assessment
Hemingway seldom used metaphors, comparing things to other things; his prose captures the essence of the thing itself, and it does so beautifully and precisely.
Far from the macho image of Hemingway created in the popular press, the characters in his fiction have all been wounded in important ways, damaged physically and psychologically, and they are trying to find some structure to provide meaning and direction to their lives.
Hemingway's reputation and influence will forever rest on an uneasy blending of the myth of his personal adventures with the artistic merit of his best fiction.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway/stories/nagel   (861 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hemingway had temporarily left Paris and was in town working for the paper to provide his wife Hadley with the benefits of Toronto hospitals during childbirth.
Hemingway always had a knack for selecting interesting places to live and for making those places his own, but of all the places he lived, Paris seemed to be the one that affected him most.
Hemingway's France is "must" reading for all Hemingway fans, and for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the writings, paintings, and poetry created in those turbulent times by the now legendary personalities of yesteryear.
www.booksunderreview.com /Arts/Literature/Authors/H/Hemingway,_Ernest   (6840 words)

  
 Hemingway, Ernest. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Hemingway’s fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives—soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters—who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic courage.
Hemingway’s first books, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), In Our Time (short stories, 1924), and The Torrents of Spring (a novel, 1926), attracted attention primarily because of his literary style.
Among Hemingway’s other works are the novels To Have and Have Not (1937) and Across the River and into the Trees (1950); he also edited an anthology of stories, Men at War (1942).
www.bartleby.com /65/he/Hemingwa.html   (646 words)

  
 Biography
As or more important, Hemingway’s style, with its consistent use of short, concrete, direct prose and of scenes consisting exclusively of dialogue, gives his novels and short stories a distinctive accessibility that is immediately identifiable with the author.
Hemingway’s text is the result of a painstaking selection process, each word performing an assigned function in the narrative.
The main working corollary of Hemingway’s “iceberg principle” is that the full meaning of the text is not limited to moving the plot forward: there is always a web of association and inference, a submerged reason behind the inclusion (or even the omission) of every detail.
www.enotes.com /hemingway-masters   (609 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway - Biography
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen.
Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith.
nobelprize.org /literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html   (582 words)

  
 Hemingway, Ernest on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
THE DAUGHTER HEMINGWAY NEVER HAD; Gregory Hemingway, son of Ernest, was a talented writer who knew how to use a gun and had a way with the ladies.
In December 1937 Ernest Hemingway was covering the Loyalist assault on Teruel, the walled town in the bleak mountains of South (PAR168470)
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www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hemingwa.asp   (669 words)

  
 Tracing Hemingway's Paris
Hemingway and his friends were members of the Lost Generation, a name which he disliked immensely.
The Hemingways arrived in Paris at a time when the dreary aftermath of World War I was receding and life on the Left Bank had begun to come back.
Hemingway had a public relations officer, a lieutenant as an aide, a cook, a driver, a photographer and a special liquor ration.
www.frugalfun.com /hemingwayparis.html   (1450 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Sun Also Rises: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hemingway puts you in the story with his vivid description of the mountain sides in Spain and fresh water fly fishing.
Hemingway described thoroughly the world of the 'Lost Generation?through the character settings that most of them have either suffered from the war physically or emotionally.
The novel, being borne out of Hemingway's own personal experience, focuses on a group of expatriate individuals living in luxury and elegance in the city of Paris, where the first half of the novel takes place.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684800713   (2022 words)

  
 Hemingway, South Carolina
Hemingway is a relaxed southern town with a heritage of cotton and tobacco farming.
Hemingway is famous for its annual Bar-B-Que Shag Festival in April.
From Hemingway and the Pee Dee area, a number of beekeepers supply honeybees for pollination of millions of dollars worth of watermelons, cucumbers, cantaloupes, squash, kiwifruit, apples, peaches and other crops that need bees.
hemingwaysouthcarolina.com   (530 words)

  
 Ernest and Pauline Hemingway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Dr. and Mrs.
After high school, the young Hemingway shunned college for a series of adventures that included serving as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star, an ambulance driver for the Red Cross on the Italian front in World War I, a sparring partner for boxers in Chicago, and a writer for the Toronto Star.
Hemingway, known affectionately by all as "Papa," lived life to the fullest.
hemingway.astate.edu /ernestprofile.html   (431 words)

  
 Birthplace
Grace Hall Hemingway dressed Ernest like a girl for the first two years of his life.
Hemingway was born in the dying months of the 19th century and the first sounds he would have heard outside would have been of horses' hooves and not the soft swish of traffic that is pretty much constant today.
Hemingway inherited neither his mother's literary style, nor her musical talent.
www.pbs.org /hemingwayadventure/michigan.html   (284 words)

  
 The Hemingway Society
In 1980 at Thompson Island in Boston Harbor, a group of Hemingway scholars assembled for a conference near the John F. Kennedy library (the principal repository of Hemingway manuscripts and memorabilia) formed the Hemingway Society.
After the death of Mary Hemingway in 1986, Ernest's sons Patrick and John Hemingway generously invited the Society to assume the resources, and duties and functions, of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation.
Organize and chair two sessions on Hemingway at both the MLA (Modern Language Association) and ALA (American Literature Association) annual meetings, where members of the Hemingway Society have an opportunity to present papers and participate in panels.
www.hemingwaysociety.org   (516 words)

  
 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-Ernest Hemingway 1998 Cosmic Player Plate
Novelist Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899.
He was the second of six children born to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a physician and Grace Hall Hemingway, a singer.
The misconception that Hemingway founded a 'lost generation' is a myth that persists to this day.
www.cosmicbaseball.com /hemingw8.html   (886 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sun Also Rises: Books: Ernest Hemingway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the process of parsing away the excesses, Hemingway created a clear, simple and quite declarative prose style that was truly both modern and revolutionary.
One reads Hemingway quickly, at least at first, when one learns to slow down and drink in every word and every detail as it is related.
Hemingway makes this abundantly clear by repeatedly describing the bull's death as when the matador and the bull become one.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684800713?v=glance   (2828 words)

  
 ★ Reviews of books about Hemingway
Brief passages from the notable Hemingway works are interwoven into the text to illustrate where certain inspirations came from.
Author Hilary Hemingway's retelling of anecdotes about her uncle's time in Cuba is done so with amazing and solid writing.
Hemingway genuinely likes this stuff and so do I. American readers will be entertained because much of this is British or European mass-market art that wasn't as popular here, but should have been!
united_states.vacationbookreview.com /South_Carolina/Hemingway   (4029 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Authors: Hemingway Ernest
Definition of courage: 'Grace under pressure.' Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) American novelist and short-story writer There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois.
The Hemingway Research Room's mission is to serve first researchers, then educational groups and the general public.
www4.geometry.net /authors/hemingway_ernest.html   (1516 words)

  
 Key West - HEMINGWAY HOME & MUSEUM
Located at 907 Whitehead Street and nestled in the heart of Old Town Key West, this unique property was home to one of America's most honored and respected authors.
Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote here for more than ten years.
The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum is a significant address on any Key West itinerary.
www.hemingwayhome.com /HTML/main_menu.html   (167 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway His Life and Works
Kelley Dupuis is one of the most informative people on Hemingway we have ever come across and he has written a number of pieces for this web site: Look to the left for a list and below for his new work - May 2005
Ernest Hemingway was born on 21st July 1899 in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
His father, Dr Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a fervent member of the First Congregational church, his mother, Grace Hall, sang in the church choir.
www.ernest.hemingway.com   (186 words)

  
 Hemingway One-Name Study
It describes my research into the name and its variants and provides details about my own line and those that I have researched or that others have asked me to publish.
This is a venture that I have tackled with a great deal of support from others who have taken the time and trouble to exchange information with me. If you have any Hemingway (or variants) interest, I would love to hear from you.
The site contains a wide variety of information about Hemingways, describes the progress with the Hemingway DNA Project and details of the Gatherings that are planned or have been held.
www.hemingway.uk.com   (204 words)

  
 Ernest Hemingway Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
Your donation supports the work of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.
Join the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park for free admission, newsletter subscription, 10% discount at the Museum Store, and discounts on selected events.
www.ehfop.org   (172 words)

  
 Hemispheres | Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Gary Davis,an aging cardiologist in Evanston, Illinois, was born and raised near Hemingway’s hometown of Oak Park.
His previous publications have all been medical, except his submission to last year’s Imitation Hemingway Competition, which was first runner-up and appeared on HEMISPHERES’ Web site.
He was an old man who ate fish alone at Gulfstream in the Century City Mall and he had gone eighty-four days now without eating tartar sauce.
www.hemispheresmagazine.com /fiction/2005/hemingway.htm   (1512 words)

  
 Virtual Hemingway
Virtual Hemingway is intended to provide persons interested in the author with links to scholarship and other information about Hemingway on-line as well as to selected manifestations of Hemingway's appearances in popular culture.
The Hemingway Society cannot be responsible for the content or function of external web sites, nor should the links be considered an endorsement of any product, service, or organization.
"Hemingway and the Beasts" by Jens Bjørneboe (translated from the Norwegian by Esther Greenleaf Müer)
www.hemingwaysociety.org /virthem.htm   (6145 words)

  
 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)
Hemingway in 100 words (submitted by IJ Harris)
almaz.com /nobel/literature/1954a.html   (290 words)

  
 »»literature Reviews««
Eternity Hemingway certainly has secured for himself with his internationally renowned body of work.
In this collection, however, he reads some of his lesser-known pieces, including the Nobel speech, a poem, and even a work in progress, most of which were recorded in Cuba.
Although his readings of his own work seem timidly rigid at times, this tape represents a rare opportunity for Hemingway fans and nonfans alike, as it is one of the only known recordings of the writer's voice.
www.financial-book-review.com /literature/literature_187.html   (4365 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hemingway: Books: Carlos Baker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hemingway: The Final Years by Michael S. Reynolds
Hemingway: The Paris Years by Michael S. Reynolds
Insightful analysis of Hemingway's work for anyone who wants to get past the literal meanings to reach the symbolic.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691013055?v=glance   (604 words)

  
 Hemingway Resource Center~Welcome
The Ernest Hemingway Resource Center is the most popular internet guide to Hemingway's life and work.
While this is not a comprehensive bibliography it does represent the titles we currently have in our Hemingway Resource Center library.
From time to time we're fortunate enough to interview authors of Hemingway related works or to receive articles by Hemingway aficionados.
www.lostgeneration.com /hrc.htm   (588 words)

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