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