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Timeline of Ernest Hemingway's life
1899 - Ernest Miller Hemingway born to Clarence and Grace Hemingway on July 21 in Oak Park, IL
1917 - Graduates high school; reporter for the Kansas City Star
1918 - World War I ambulance driver for the American Red Cross; wounded on July 8 on the Italian front near Fossalta di Piave; had an affair with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky
1920 - reporter for Toronto Star
1921 - married to Hadley Richardson; moves to Paris, France on Sherwood Anderson's advice
1922 - correspondent for Toronto Star covering Greco-Turkish War
1923 - Three Stories and Ten Poems published by Robert McAlmon in Paris; birth of son John
1924 - in our time, a collection of vignettes, published in Paris by Three Mountains Press
1925 - In Our Time, adding fourteen short stories to the earlier vignettes, published in New York by Boni & Liveright
1926 - The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises published by Charles Scribner's Sons
1927 - publishes short story collection, Men Without Women; marries Pauline Pfieffer after divorcing Hadley Richardson
1928 - moves to Key West, FL, USA; birth of son Patrick
1929 - father commits suicide in Oak Park, IL; A Farewell to Arms published
1931 - birth of son Gregory
1931 - bought a home in Key West, FL and lived there for ten years
1932 - Death in the Afternoon published
1933 - publishes short story collection, Winner Take Nothing
1935 - Green Hills of Africa published
1937 - travels as war correspondent to the Spanish Civil War; To Have and Have Not published
1938 - collaborates with Joris Ivens on The Spanish Earth, a film espousing the Loyalist cause; publishes The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories
1940 - divorces Pauline Pfieffer, marries Martha Gellhorn; purchases Finca Vigia in Cuba; For Whom the Bell Tolls published
1942 - edits Men at War
1944 - meets Mary Welsh in London, UK; travels with American troops in France and Germany as World War II correspondent; participates in Allied liberation of Paris, France
1945 - divorces Martha Gellhorn
1946 - marries Mary Welsh
1950 - Across the River and into the Trees published
1951 - mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, dies
1952 - The Old Man and the Sea published 1954 - receivesNobel Prize for Literature
1960 - moves to Ketchum, Idaho; hospitalized for uncontrolled high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes, depression
1961 - commits suicide in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2
1964 - A Moveable Feast published posthumously
1969 - The Fifth Column and Four Stories of teh Spanish Civil War published
1970 - Islands in the Stream published
1972 - The Nick Adams Stories published
1985 - The Dangerous Summer published
1986 - The Garden of Eden published
1987 - The Complete Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition published