Ernest Miller Hemingway (Papa)
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (Papa) 🇺🇸

Ernest Hemingway (Known as "Papa / Master of the Iceberg Theory")
American Novelist, Short Story Writer, War Correspondent, Big-Game Hunter, Nobel Laureate
Born 21 July 1899 🇺🇸 Oak Park (Illinois), United States
Passed Away 2 July 1961 Ketchum (Idaho), United States
Lifespan 61 years old
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"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. (The Old Man and the Sea). The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Archival Overview

Titan of 20th-century American fiction and 1954 Nobel laureate whose spare, declarative 'iceberg theory' prose style and adventurous life in Paris, Spain, and Cuba produced The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea.

Biographical Record

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), wounded as an eighteen-year-old Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I, joined Gertrude Stein's expatriate 'Lost Generation' in 1920s Paris. Developing his revolutionary Iceberg Theory (theory of omission)—stating that the dignity and emotional power of a story lies in the seven-eighths submerged beneath the surface—Hemingway stripped English prose of Victorian ornamentation.

His breakout novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) immortalized the bullfights of Pamplona, while A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) captured the tragic nobility of war and love. Living in Finca Vigía, Cuba, Hemingway wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning heroic parable The Old Man and the Sea (1952), recounting the aged fisherman Santiago's solitary struggle against an immense marlin in the Gulf Stream, earning him the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Key Life Milestones

September 1952 CE

Publication of The Old Man and the Sea in Life Magazine

Published his Pulitzer Prize-winning novella, selling five million magazine copies in two days.

1954 CE

Award of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Awarded the Nobel Prize for his mastery of the art of narration and the influence he exercised on contemporary style.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Ketchum Cemetery (Hemingway Memorial Grave, Sun Valley, Idaho)
Ketchum (Idaho), United States
GPS: 43.6881, -114.3683
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