Ernest Hemingway is an American legend, but how much do you know about this important author? Test your knowledge with these Hemingway facts.
Ernest Hemingway traveled and lived all over the world; wrote some of America's best modern fiction, such as The Sun also Rises and A Moveable Feast; and was married four times. In addition:
- At one time, Hemingway had homes in Havana, Key West, Spain, and Ketchum Idaho.
- Hemingway’s first job, when he was just out of high school, was as a cub reporter for the “Kansas City Star.”
- Actress, Mariel Hemingway, known for her work in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan,” is Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter.
- Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, the second of six children.
- Hemingway tried to join the army during World War I. Because of his poor vision, he was turned down and instead, joined the Red Cross Ambulance corps on the Italian front. He was wounded there, and it was from this experience, that he wrote A Farwell to Arms.
- Hemingway’s first book, Three stories and Ten Poems, was published privately in Paris in 1923.
- In World War II, Hemingway took part in the D-day invasion as a correspondent on a landing craft.
- Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in 1954 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his short novel, The Old Man and the Sea.
- Hemingway left his entire Havana estate to Fidel Castro. It was rather a mute point. Castro had already seized the property.
- Hemingway committed suicide on July 2, 1961 with a shotgun blast to the head. Ironically, his father, brother, and sister also committed suicide, and later, tragically, his granddaughter, Margaux, would follow suit.
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