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This is a Time line of a few important events in the life of celebrated author and poet Ernest Hemingway.

Created by badgerswordx on Feb 14, 2011

Last updated: 02/28/11 at 08:04 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Feb 14, 2011 6:52 AM

• Death
  Jul 1, 1961

  On the night of July 2nd, 1961, Hemingway committed suicide in the town of Ketchum, Idaho. His death was the result of a self inflicted shotgun blast to the head.

• Nobel Prize
  1954

  The Nobel Prize for literature of 1954 was awarded to Hemingway. This award was also given to him partly for his novel Old Man and the Sea.

• Pulitzer Prize
  1953

  Ernest Hemingway was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He won the Pulitzer because of his work on his novel The Old man and the Sea.

• Final Marriage
  1946

  A year after his last divorce, Hemingway remarried yet again, this time to Mary Welsh Hemingway. She would remain his wife until his death in 1961.

• Final Divorce
  1945

  In 1945, he divorced his third wife, Gellhorn. This would be his final divorce, as a year later he would marry his fourth and final wife.

• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  Oct 1940

  What is arguably Ernest Hemingway's most famous work, the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls", was published in October of 1940. The events depicted in the book are based partly upon the Hemingway's own experiences in the Spanish Civil War.

• Second Divorce and Third Marriage
  1940

  In 1940, Ernest Hemingway's second marriage, with Pauline Pfeiffer, ended in divorce. Only Three weeks later, Hemingway was married again, this time to Martha Gellhorn.

• Final Child
  Nov 12, 1931

  Ernest Hemingway's third and final child, Gregory, was born during his second marriage, two years after the birth of his older brother Patrick. Despite being the youngest of Ernest's children, Gregory died in 2001.

• Second Son
  Jun 28, 1928

  Hemingway's second wife gave birth to his second son, Patrick Hemingway, about a year after their marriage. Patrick is Ernest Hemingway's only living child.

• Divorce and Remarriage
  1927

  During the year of 1927, Hemingway's first marriage with Hadley Richardson ended. Later that same year, he was remarried to Pauline Pfeiffer.

• First Son
  Oct 10, 1923

  Hemingway's first son, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway, was born on October 10th, 1923. His place of birth was Toronto.

• First Marriage
  1921

  Hemingway married his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, in 1921. Shortly afterward, they moved to Paris, France, where Hemingway was a correspondent with a newspaper.

• Birth
  Jul 1, 1899

  Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on July 21st, 1899. His parents were Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and Grace-Hall Hemingway.