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Chronology Of Events In Ernest Hemingway’s Life

In the last year of the nineteenth century, Ernest Hemingway was born in the afterglow of the Spanish-American War. Nothing about his birth or his parentage was particularly significant. Sixty-one years and eleven months later, when he died by his own hand, it was headline news in almost every major newspaper in the world. He had become an American icon, a face so familiar that it needed no identifying caption. In the last year of the twentieth century, the centennial of his birth, the world once more paid homage to this American writer who changed the way Americans wrote about themselves.

As one of his sons has said, Hemingway lived on a fast clock. He burned with an intensity that made emotional and physical demands both on himself and those around him. In the first half of the twentieth century, he was present at the crucial events that shaped world history. In World War I, he was wounded on the Italian...

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1. Introduction
2. Biography
3. Chronology Of Events In Ernest Hemingway’s Life
4. About Ernest Hemingway
5. Hemingway at Work
6. Hemingway’s Eras
7. Hemingway’s Works
8. Hemingway on Hemingway
9. Hemingway as Studied
10. Frequently Asked Questions About Ernest Hemingway
11. Bibliography
12. Copyright

1. Ernest Hemingway
2. American Literature