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Ernest Hemingway

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Born
Oak Park, Illinois, U.S., 1899

Died
Ketchum, Idaho, U.S., 1899

Publications
Novels, novellas, stories, poetry, memoirs

Genres
Literary, satire

Writing language
English

Places of writing
United States, France, Cuba

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Literature

In Our Time (1925)

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Novels

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Novellas

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Stories

"Indian Camp" (1924)

"Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)

"The Three-Day Blow" (1925)

"A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)

• "Hills Like White Elephants"(1927)

"The Killers" (1927)

"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)

"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)

Story Collections

In Our Time (1925)

Mew Without Women (1927)

Winner Take Nothing (1933)

American Literature

In Our Time (1925)

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Mew Without Women (1927)

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

First appearance of works in book form

1923

Three Stories and Ten Poems Stories and poems

First book appearance of stories "Up in Michigan", "Out of Season", "My Old Man"; poems "Mitraigliatrice", "Oklahoma", "Oily Weather", "Roosevelt", "Captives", "Champs d'Honneur", "Riparto d'Assalto", "Montparnasse", "Along With Youth", "Chapter Heading"

1924

in our time Eighteen vignettes

1925

In Our Time Sixteen vignettes and sixteen stories

First book appearance of stories "On the Quai at Smyrna", "Indian Camp", "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife", "The End of Something", "The Three-Day Blow", "The Battler", "A Very Short Story", "Soldier's Home", "The Revolutionist", "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot", "Cat in the Rain", "Out of Season", "Cross Country Snow", "My Old Man", "Big Two-Hearted River, Part I", "Big Two-Hearted River, Part II"

1926

The Torrents of Spring Novella

The Sun Also Rises Novel

1927

Men Without Women Fourteen stories

First book appearance of "The Undefeated", "In Another Country", "Hills Like White Elephants", "The Killers", "Che Ti Dice La Patria?", "Fifty Grand", "A Simple Enquiry", "Ten Indians", "A Canary for One", "An Alpine Idyll", "A Pursuit Race", "Today is Friday", "Banal Story", "Now I Lay Me"

1929

A Farewell to Arms Novel

1932

Death in the Afternoon Nonfiction

1933

Winner Take Nothing Fourteen stories

First book appearance of "After the Storm", "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place", "The Light of the World", "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", "The Sea Change", "A Way You'll Never Be", "The Mother of a Queen", "One Reader Writes", "Homage to Switzerland", "A Day's Wait", "A Natural History of the Dead", "Wine of Wyoming", "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio", "Fathers and Sons" (three stories added in 1977 edition)

1935

The Green Hills of Africa Memoir

1937

To Have and Have Not Novel

1938

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories Play and stories

First book appearance of play "The Fifth Column"; stories "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", "The Capital of the World", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "Old Man at the Bridge"

1940

For Whom the Bell Tolls Novel

1950

Across the River and Into the Trees Novel

1952

The Old Man and the Sea Novella

1964

A Moveable Feast Memoir

1969

The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War Play and stories

First book appearance of stories "The Denunciation", "The butterfly and the Tank", "Night Before Battle", "Under the Bridge"

1970

Islands in the Stream Novel

1972

The Nick Adams Stories Twenty-four stories

First book appearance of "Three Shots", "The Indians Moved Away", "The Last Good Country", "Crossing the Mississippi", "Night Before Landing", "Nick sat against the wall....", "In Another Country", "Summer People", "Wedding Day", "On Writing"

1979

88 Poems Poems

1981

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 Letters

1985

The Dangerous Summer Nonfiction

Dateline: Toronto Journalism

1986

The Garden of Eden Novel

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway Stories

First book appearance of "Nobody Ever Dies", "The Good Lion", "The Faithful Bull", "Get A Seeing-Eyed Dog", "A Man of The World", "A Train Trip", "The Porter", "Black Ass at the Cross Roads", "Landscape with Figures", "Landscape with Figures", "I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something", "Great News from the Mainland", "The Strange Country", "An African Story", "One Trip Across", "The Tradesman's Return"

1999

True at First Light Fictionalized memoir

2005

Under Kilimanjaro Fictionalized memoir

2011

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1907-1922 Letters.

 

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