Ernest Hemingway Chronology - World of Biography


July 21, 1899	Ernest Miller Hemingway born to Clarence and Grace Hemingway.
1900	Went with his family to their summer cottage called Windemere in Northern Michigan, where he learned fishing and hunting from his father.
1905	Entered first grade with sister Marcelline, 18 months his elder.
1917	Graduated from high school. Worked as reporter for the Kansas City Star.
1918	First World War ambulance driver for the American Red Cross where he was wounded on July 8 on the Italian front near Fossalta di Plave. Had an affair with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky.
1920	Reporter for Toronto Star Weekly.
1921	Married Hadley Richardson. Moved to Paris, France on Sherwood Anderson’s advice.
1922	Correspondent for Toronto Star covering Greco-Turkish War.
1923	Three Stories and Ten Poems published by Robert McAlmon in Paris Birth of son John.
1924	In Our Time, a collection of vignettes, published in Paris by Three Mountains Press.
1925	In Our Time, added 14 short-stories to the earlier vignettes, published in New York by Boni & Liveright.
1926	The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises published by Charles Scribner.
1927	Published short story collection, Men Without Women. Married Pauline Pfeiffer after divorcing Hadley Richardson.
1928	Moved to Key West, FL, USA. Birth of son Patrick.
1929	Father committed suicide in Oak Park, IL; A Farewell to Arms published.
1931	Birth of son Gregory; bought a home in Key West, FL and lived there for 10 years.
1932	Death in the Afternoon published.
1933	Published short story collection, Winner Take Nothing.
1935	Green Hills Of Africa published.
1937	To Have and Have Not published.
1940	For Whom The Bell Tolls, his greatest commercial success novel published. Divorced Pauline to marry Martha Gellhorn.
1946	Married Mary Welsh.
1953	Suffered serious injuries in a plane crash while on an African Safari. Won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for his 1952 novella The Old Man and the Sea.
1954	Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his distinguished and phenomenal popular body of work.
July 2, 1961	Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun.