3. He began to write his short stories and novels in the 1920s; his first novel was, “The Sun Also Rises.
4. He wrote ten different novels, ten collections, and also wrote five separate non-fictional pieces. Above Picture: Hemingway in the middle with his family. Below Picture: Hemingway and his youngest boys, Patrick and George Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, his first son, John, and Himself 2
5. Collections.. Three Stories & Ten Poems In Our Time Men Without Women Winner Takes Nothing The Snows of Kilimanjaro Everyman’s Library The Collected Stories The Nick Adams Stories The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War The Fifth Column & the Forty-Nine Stories Novels.. The Torrents of Spring The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms To Have & Have Not For Whom the Bell Tolls Across the River & Into the Trees The Old Man & the Sea Islands in the Stream The Garden of Eden True at First Light His Work.. Non Fiction Work.. Death in the Afternoon The Green Hills of Africa A Moveable Feast Selected Letters, 1917-1961 The Dangerous Summer 3
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7. Also, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for “The Old Man and the Sea” and “Picnic” for fiction and drama. 4
8. According to Biographer Jeffrey Meyers in his biography, Hemingway met a young nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, and fell deep in love with her. Hemingway had been injured by mortar fire, encountered shrapnel wounds to both legs and had to have surgery. He was transferred to the Red Cross hospital in Milan, where Agnes was a nurse. The two had intended on marrying, but Agnes said they had nothing more than a ‘boy and girl love’ and married an Italian Officer instead. This broke Hemingway and so his writing began. He wrote, “A Very Short Story and “A Farewell to Arms” about his and Agnes’ story. Ernest Hemingway was married four times. Hadley Richardson in 1922 One Son, John in 1923 Pauline Pfeiffer in 1927 Two Sons, Patrick in 1928 and George in 1931 Martha Gellhorn in 1940 Mary Welsh in 1946 Relationships… 5