Earnest Hemingway Timeline by Abigail Silva

Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois.

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Hemingway dies in 1961, aged 60.

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Cause of death: Suicide

In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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It was awarded for "his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."

"The Sun Also Rises" was published in 1926.

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May 1918: Hemingway landed in Paris as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross Motor Corps.

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Originally he wanted to enlist in the US Army, but was turned away due to his poor eyesight.

On July 8, 1918 Hemingway was seriously injured by shrapnel, prompting him to return home.

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Public Domain

" For Whom the Bell Tolls" was published in 1940.

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This book well known to be set during the Spanish Civil War following an American Professor who works alongside a Republican guerrilla group. Essentially, they blow up a railroad to stop the rising fascism at the time. It's famous for its captivating depiction of the Spanish Civil War and themes of sacrifice, duty and pointlessness of war.

In 1937, Hemingway begins work as a correspondent covering the Spanish Civil War

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In 1923, Hemingway moved to Paris

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He moved there because “it was inexpensive and it was where the most interesting people in the world resided.”

In 1927, Hemingway got divorced from his first wife and married his affair partner 4 months later.

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Pauline Pfeiffer was the daughter of a wealthy Arkansas Catholic Minister—Hemingway converted to Catholicism between his divorce in January and his marriage in May.

Works Cited

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Cosgrove, Ben. “Ernest Hemingway in Cuba: Rare Photos of a Legend in Decline, 1952.” Time, Time, 3 June 2013, time.com/3638572/hemingway-in-cuba-1952-portrait-of-a-legend-in-decline/.

Ernest Hemingway Collection. Photographs | JFK Library, www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/ehph. Accessed 26 Sept. 2025.

“Ernest Hemingway – Biographical.” NobelPrize.Org, www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/biographical/. Accessed 26 Sept. 2025.

The Hemingway Papers, ehto.thestar.com/. Accessed 26 Sept. 2025.