Ernest Miller Hemingway

· born on July 21, 1899, in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close to the prairies and woods west of Chicago

· Victorian

· lifelong depressions

· he would explore, camp, fish and hunt with his physician father, Dr. Clarence "Ed"

Hemingway

· an American author

· reported and wrote articles, poems and stories for his high school's publications largely

based on his direct experiences

· after high school_} starting writing for the Kansas City Star (a newspaper)

· "Brevity, a reconciliation of vigor with smoothness, the positive approach"

· on Italian/Austrian front in WW1

· Silver Medal of Military Valor

· mentored by Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound in Europe

· Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea

· Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 also for The Old Man and the Sea

"powerful, style- making mastery of the art of modern narration."

· suicide July, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.

· The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park