A Hemingway timeline: 'Any man's life, told truly, is a novel'A Hemingway timeline: 'Any man's life,
told truly, is a novel'
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first great success despite selling only 26,000 copies in its first year. When Life magazine, on Sept. 1, 1952, published The Old Man and the Sea (a week before the book came out), it sold more than 5 million copies in two days.
Date: 06/27/99 00:01
1899
July 21: Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Ill.
1917
Graduates from high school, summers in Michigan.
October: Begins work as a cub reporter at The Kansas City Star. Lives with uncle, then at a boarding house, 3733 Warwick Blvd.
November: Moves to 3516 Agnes Ave., where he shares room with Michigan friend Carl Edgar.
Joins 7th Missouri Infantry, a temporary unit of Missouri National Guard.
1918
Recovering in Italy, 1918
April 30: Leaves Kansas City for Italy and World War I.
Serves as ambulance driver for American Red Cross and in the canteen service at the front.
July 8: Seriously wounded when a trench mortar shell explodes three feet away, near the front at Fossalta. During recuperation, has an affair with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky; relationship provided inspiration for A Farewell to Arms.
1919
Returns to Chicago. Is hailed as war hero.
1920
Begins writing for the Toronto Star. Takes job in Chicago with Co-operative Commonwealth magazine.
1921
With Hadley Richardson on their wedding day
Sept. 3: Marries Hadley Richardson of St. Louis in Horton Bay, Mich.
October: Co-operative Commonwealth closes in financial scandal.
December: At the urging of Sherwood Anderson, the newlyweds move to Paris.
1922
March 8: The Hemingways meet Gertrude Stein.
Late September: Ernest travels to Constantinople to cover the war between Greece and Turkey for the Toronto Star.
Dec. 3: Hadley, on her way to Switzerland to meet Ernest, loses a suitcase containing his manuscripts in a Paris train station.
1923
July: Witnesses the running of the bulls at Pamplona, Spain.
August: Three Stories and Ten Poems is published by a small press in Paris.
Oct. 10: Becomes a papa when son Jack is born in Toronto.
1924
July: Pamplona again.
August: Finishes short story "Big Two-Hearted River."
1925
April in Paris: Meets F. Scott Fitzgerald shortly after his Great Gatsby is published.
July: Begins working on The Sun Also Rises, which by the end of the next year ensures his fame.
1927
Divorces Hadley, marries Pauline Pfeiffer.
1928
With Pauline Pfeiffer
Moves to Key West, Fla.
June-July: In Kansas City for the birth of second son, Patrick.
Dec. 6: Ernest's father, Clarence Hemingway, commits suicide in Oak Park.
1930
Car wreck in Montana. Arm is badly broken.
1931
Oct. 14: Hemingways arrive in Kansas City.
Nov. 12: Third son Gregory is born by Caesarean section in Kansas City.
1933
From the Hemingways' safari, 1933
Hemingways on safari in Africa.
1934
Pilar, Hemingway's famed fishing boat, arrives in Key West in May. That summer Hemingway takes the boat to Cuba.
1935
Accidentally shoots self in the leg.
1936
Introduced to journalist Martha Gellhorn in Key West.
1937
Hemingway unjams the rifle of a Loyalist soldier in the Spanish Civil War, 1937.
February: Begins work as a correspondent covering the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway and Pauline go to Hollywood later in the year to raise money for the Spanish Loyalists.
Oct. 18: Likeness appears on cover of Time magazine.
1938
June 22: In New York to watch the Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fight.
1939
Hemingway shares a house in Cuba with Martha Gellhorn.
1940
Celebrating with Gellhorn after their wedding
"The Fifth Column," a Hemingway play, opens in New York.
Divorces Pauline and marries Martha.
Buys the house in Cuba, known as the Finca Vigia.
1941
Ernest and Martha tour China as journalists, witness its war with Japan.
1942
Uses Pilar for armed patrols, scouting for German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico.
1944
Pilar, Hemingway's famed fishing boat, arrived in Key West in 1934. In 1942 he used the boat for armed patrols, scouting for German submarines in the Gulf of Mexico.
May: Is in a serious auto accident suffering a concussion and severe head lacerations.
Accompanies British Royal Air Force on missions over France and Germany.
August: Accompanies the 22nd Infantry Regiment near Rambouillet, France. Later is investigated and cleared by Army inspector general on allegations of being armed correspondent. Arrives in Paris for liberation by Allies.
Meets writer Mary Welsh in London.
1945
Martha Gellhorn divorces Hemingway.
1946
Marries Mary Welsh.
1947
Awarded Bronze Star for service in World War II.
June: Max Perkins, Hemingway's longtime editor at Scribner's, dies.
Becomes involved in a plot to overthrow the government of the Dominican Republic.
1951
June 28: Mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, dies.
Oct. 1: Pauline Pfeiffer dies
1953
Wins Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
Last four months of the year on safari in Kenya.
1954
In January, while still in Africa, the Hemingways survive two plane crashes.
October: Awarded Nobel Prize for literature.
1955
Hemingway killed himself on July 2, 1961.
Works on the script and filming of the movie version of "The Old Man and the Sea."
Bedridden with nephritis and hepatitis from late-November through January of 1956.
1959
Travels to Spain for bullfighting articles for Life magazine.
Buys home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1960
Undergoes electroshock treatments for depression and paranoia. Is also treated for liver disease, hypertension and diabetes.
