Mark hemingway biography early pregnancy

As a boy he was tall, quiet, shy, awkward (especially around women) and yet within a handful of years he would become the ultimate international symbol of machismo, bravado, strength, and self-confidence. As with every biography, a writer must reckon with both the one-dimensional image of the man, and also with the inevitable complexity behind his facade. Hemingway was both an icon and a yet still a man. Through grit and ambition (aside from occasionally stretching the truth), Hemingway made himself into the most celebrated American writer since Mark Twain. He was the essential 20th century novelist, both in terms of style as well as content. For a century of future authors his unique prose was inescapable. Both man and myth, he was at once a big game hunter, deep sea fisherman, and boxing aficionado, yet he was also a person of extraordinary subtly, tenderness, and kindness to his friends.

He was born on July 21st, 1899. Hemingway had four sisters and a younger brother. They lived in a well-mannered Chicago suburb: Oak Park, Illinois -a town that once boasted of its numerous churches. The Hemingways frequently vacationed at Walloon Lake in Michigan. Ernest’s father, Clarence “Ed” Hemingway, was a family doctor. He was a devoted father and a lover of the outdoors. He suffered from extensive bouts of depression. Twice he briefly departed from the family due to his anxieties. Ernest’s mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, had married Ed after abandoning her dream of becoming an opera singer. She earned more money than her husband teaching music lessons. Considerable Freudian speculation has been made about the androgynous games she played with her children, such as playing with dolls, tea, and cross-dressing the boys. The Hemingway children later blamed their father’s troubles on their mother’s selfishness. Both of Hemingway’s parents were austere and old-fashioned -they were opponents of alcohol and dancing.

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American author and journalist (1899–1961)

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Ernest Miller Hemingway (HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. After high school, he spent six months as a reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded by shrapnel in 1918. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926. In 1928, Hemingway returned to the U.S., where he settled in Key West, Florida. His experiences during the war supplied material for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms.

In 1937, Hemingway went to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War, which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, written in Havana, Cuba. During World War II, Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. In 1952, his novel The Old Man and the Sea was published to considerable acclaim, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On a 1954 trip to Africa, Hemingway was seriously injured in two successive plane crashes, leaving him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. He died by suicide at his house in Ketchum, Idaho,

Few novelists have had their work examined like Ernest Hemingway, but, in 2021, the most celebrated writer since Mark Twain finally got the Ken Burns treatment on the U.S. public broadcasting television station. The three-part series covers the now-familiar story without much additional detail: his childhood in Oak Park, Illinois; his service with the Red Cross in Italy in World War I; Paris with his first wife, Hadley Richardson; and his career as a novelist and journalist with three more wives—Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh. The fishing expeditions, African safaris, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II are all covered in depth, and the violence feels like a foreshadowing as Burns documents his descent into mental illness and alcoholism.

Hemingway’s spare sentences and ‘iceberg theory’—the idea that the deeper meaning of a story should be implicit rather than explicit—revolutionized American literature. So, in many ways, did the crude language and explicit themes that he often relished exploring with his fellow modernists, which debased his genius. In 1926, his mother Grace put it well in a letter to him after the publication of his first novel, The Sun Also Rises. Many had praised the work, she wrote:

But the decent ones regret that you should use such great gifts to so degraded a strata of humanity … what is the matter? Have you ceased to be interested in loyalty, nobility, honor and fineness of life? … If you are going through domestic disillusionment or drink has got you—throw off the shackles of these conditions and rise to be the man and the writer God meant you to be.

Grace Hemingway struck closer to home than she realized. Ernest would abandon his first wife and their son “Bumby” (whom he would remain close to) the following year, and heavy drinking would degrade his writing, exacerbate his mental illness, and eventually contribute to his suicide.

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