

Ernest Hemingway
- war correspondent
- screenwriter
- novelist
- journalist
- playwright
- poet
- writer
- short story writer
- prose writer
- reporter
- film director
- Born 1899-07-21
- Died 1961-07-02 (aged 61)
- Nationality United States
- Years active 1917–1961
Biography
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Known for
Filmography
See full filmography| Role | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | The Old Man and the Sea | Movie | 59 |
Career timeline
Award won Role or nomination
1899 age 0
Born1937 age 38
1944 age 45
1946 age 47
1952 age 53
1956 age 57
1957 age 58
1958 age 59
CreditThe Old Man and the Sea1961 age 61
Died
Worked with most
Family and influences
Spouse
Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.
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And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway, CC BY-SA 4.0
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway, CC BY-SA 4.0
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest Hemingway, CC BY-SA 4.0
Fuck literature.
Ernest Hemingway, CC BY-SA 4.0
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway, CC BY-SA 4.0
The age demanded that we dance<br>And jammed us into iron pants.<br>And in the end the age was handed<br>The sort of shit that it demanded.
Ernest Hemingway, CC BY-SA 4.0
TV appearances
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Facts
Personal details
- Nationalities
- United States
- Cause of death
- gunshot wound
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Years active
- 1917–1961
- Genres
- prose, opinion journalism, memoir
- Notable works
- Hills Like White Elephants, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Old Man and the Sea, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
- Education
- James F. Byrnes High School, Oak Park and River Forest High School



The Old Man and the Sea