Ernest Hemingway facts

• Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois
• The author nicknamed himself "Papa" at the age of 27
• Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
• Hemingway’s first book, Three stories and Ten Poems, was published in 1923.
• When prohibition arrived in the U.S. in 1920, Ernest Hemingway took a job in Canada.
• 5 of the Hemingway family committed suicide - his father, his sister and brother, Hemingway himself, and lastly his grand-daughter Margaux Hemingway in 1996.
• Ernest Hemingway owned an estate near Havana in Cuba for over 20 years.
• Hemingway was always a heavy drinker and became an alcoholic in his last years.
• At one time, Ernest Hemingway had homes in Key West, Havana, Spain, and Ketchum Idaho.
• Ernest Hemingway had 3 sons, Patrick, John, and Gregory Hemingway. He also had 3 grand-daughters, Joan, Margaux, and Mariel Hemingway.
• At the age of 61, Ernest Hemingway killed himself by a gun-shot to the head, exactly as his father had killed himself.
• Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, for The Old Man and the Sea.