Hemingway+notes

Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961  • Born July 21, in Oak Park, Illinois. • Father a doctor, mother a religious woman who taught music. • Boxed, played football, and wrote for the high school newspaper. Hunted and fished with his father. • Tried to enlist in the Army during WWI, but couldn’t get in due to an eye injury from boxing in high school. • Joined the Red Cross, drove an ambulance on the Italian front. Was wounded and sent home a hero. • Hemingway fell in love with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, who was taking care of him in Italy. • She would become the model for the woman in the short story “A Very Short Story” and the novel //A Farewell to Arms.// She wrote to him and broke off the relationship after he returned to the United States. = Rules for writing =

• Be clear
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• Gertrude Stein dubbed them “The Lost Generation.”
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• 1929- //A Farewell to Arms//
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• Hemingway covers World War II.
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• 1954 - Nobel Prize - too ill to attend ceremony.
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• Works on his memoir, //A Moveable Feast.//
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• 1961 - Hemingway killed himself.
= Hemingway said: =

“I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There’s seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.”
= Modernism =