Ernest Hemingway

Every entry, with its source

At 0

1. Jul 21, 1899

   Born in Oak Park, Illinois

   Son of a physician and a musician.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 17

1. c. 1917

   Cub reporter at The Kansas City Star

   Six months, straight out of high school, before he joined the Red Cross.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 18

1. Jul 8, 1918

   Badly wounded by mortar fire in Italy at 18

   A Red Cross ambulance driver. He still helped Italian soldiers to safety and was decorated for it.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 22

1. Sep 3, 1921

   Married Hadley Richardson

   Eight years older. Two months later they sailed for Paris, where he was the Toronto Star's correspondent.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 23

1. Dec 1922

   Hadley lost a suitcase holding nearly all his manuscripts

   At a Paris train station.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 26

1. Jul 21, 1925

   Began The Sun Also Rises on his 26th birthday

   Days after the fiesta in Pamplona. He finished the draft in eight weeks.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 27

1. Oct 22, 1926

   The Sun Also Rises published by Scribner's

   A first printing of 5,090 copies. It made him the voice of the Lost Generation.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 28

1. Mar 1928

   Left Paris for Key West

   He never lived in a big city again. He had divorced Hadley and married Pauline Pfeiffer the year before.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 30

1. Sep 27, 1929

   A Farewell to Arms published

   Drawn from his war wounds. It established him as a major American writer. His father had died by suicide the previous December.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 37

1. Feb 27, 1937

   Sailed to cover the Spanish Civil War

   For the North American Newspaper Alliance, with Martha Gellhorn.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 41

1. Oct 1940

   For Whom the Bell Tolls published

   A book-of-the-month pick; half a million copies within months. He married Gellhorn in November.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 53

1. Sep 1, 1952

   The Old Man and the Sea appears in Life magazine

   5.3 million copies sold in two days. He had drafted it in eight weeks, furious at critics. It won the Pulitzer in May 1953.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 54

1. Jan 1954

   Survived two plane crashes in two days in Africa

   Head trauma and internal injuries. Newspapers printed his obituary.

   Source: en.wikipedia.org

At 55

1. Oct 1954

   Nobel Prize in Literature at 55

   Too injured to travel to Stockholm.

   Source: nobelprize.org

At 61

1. Jul 2, 1961

   Died by suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, at 61

   Source: en.wikipedia.org