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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)

Nonfiction

A Moveable Feast (1964)

Memoirs

A Moveable Feast (1964)

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)

Adventure Fiction

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

Works published in book form

Three Stories and Ten Poems, story and poetry collection, 1923

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"

in our time, vignette collection, 1924

In Our Time, story collection, 1925

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"

The Torrents of Spring, novella, 1926

The Sun Also Rises, novel, 1926

Men Without Women, story collection, 1927

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"

A Farewell to Arms, novel, 1929

Death in the Afternoon, nonfiction, 1932

Winner Take Nothing, story collection, 1933

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)

The Green Hills of Africa, memoir, 1935

To Have and Have Not, novel, 1937

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, play and story collection, 1938

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"

For Whom the Bell Tolls, novel, 1940

Across the River and into the Trees, novel, 1950

The Old Man and the Sea, novella, 1952

A Moveable Feast, memoir, 1964

The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War, play and story collection, 1969

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

Islands in the Stream, novel, 1970

The Nick Adams Stories, story collection, 1972

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"

88 Poems, poety collection, 1979

Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961, letters, 1981

The Dangerous Summer, nonfiction, 1985

Dateline: Toronto Journalism, 1985

The Garden of Eden, novel, 1986

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, story collection, 1986

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"

True at First Light, fictionalized memoir, 1999

Under Kilimanjaro, fictionalized memoir, 2005

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1907-1922, letters, 2011

 

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