Hemingway Adventure (1999) (36 page)
1899 | Ernest Miller Hemingway born 21 July in Oak Park, the Chica-go suburb of ‘wide lawns and narrow minds’. |
1913 | Enters Oak Park High School; pretty hopeless at football but makes up for it in writing for the school paper. |
1917 | First job, on the |
1918 | Volunteer ambulance driver for the American Red Cross in Italy. Wounded 8 July at Fossalta. Ends up in Milan hospital and starts love affair with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky. |
1919 | Reluctant homecoming - keeps out of mother’s way up in Michigan. |
1920 | Reporter on the |
1921 | September: Marriage to Hadley Richardson. |
November: they sail for France, where he works as foreign correspondent for the | |
1922 | Starts writing short stories (rejected), befriends Gertrude Stein who encourages him to keep writing. |
En route to join Ernest in Switzerland, Hadley leaves suitcase of his original manuscripts on a train. | |
1923 | First visit to Spain; first bullfight; first son John born; first book published - |
1925 | In Our Time |
1926 | Meets F Scott Fitzgerald, and editor Max Perkins at Scribner’s. Scribner’s publish |
1927 | Divorces Hadley for Pauline Pfeiffer. |
1928 | Leaves Paris, rents house in Key West. Second son Patrick born. Father commits suicide. Starts writing |
1929 | A Farewell to Arms |
1930 | Working on |
1931 | Buys house in Key West. Third son Gregory born. |
1932 | Death in the Afternoon |
1933 | Winner Take Nothing |
1935 | Green Hills of Africa - |
1936 | Working on |
1937 | To Have and Have Not |
1938 | The Fifth Column - |
1939 | Separates from Pauline, starts living in Cuba with Martha Gell-horn. Writing |
1940 | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
1941 | He and Martha visit China and the Far East as foreign correspondents. |
1942 | Arms his boat |
1944 | War correspondent for |
1945 | Divorces Martha. |
1946 | Marries Mary Welsh. They settle back in Cuba. |
1948 | Visits Europe. Falls for Adriana Ivancic in Venice. |
1949 | Starts writing |
1950 | Across the River and into the Trees |
1952 | The Old Man and the Sea |
1953 | The Old Man and the Sea |
1954 | January: Premature obituaries following two plane crashes within three days in northern Uganda. October: Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature. |
1955 | Starts writing African journal, to be published 44 years later as |
1956 | Old diaries discovered at the Paris Ritz which form the basis for |
1958 | Moves out of Cuba and back to the American West, renting a cabin in Ketchum, Idaho. |
1959 | A 10,000-word article following the Ordonez-Dominguin |
1960 | Two suicide attempts. Treated at the Mayo Clinic with electric shock therapy. |
1961 | Discharged in January. Another suicide attempt in April, returns to clinic. Discharged as ‘cured’ 26 June. 2 July kills himself. Buried in Ketchum cemetery. |
The Hemingway Adventure would not have been possible without the help of many people.
Martha Wailes was one of the first to come on board and her enthusiasm and exhaustive thoroughness in picking through the rich detail of Hemingway’s life has helped make this book possible. As producer of the series, she showed indefatigable energy in organising, chivvying and cajoling people into helping us. Mirabel Brook guided us round the world with a steady hand and she and Laura Tutt turned a complicated shooting schedule into a precision instrument.
My co-adventurers and assorted towers of strength were David Turnbull, director, bon viveur, and the man who coined our title, Nigel Meakin, cameraman and bull impersonator, Jay Jay Odedra, his assistant, and John Pritchard, who recorded every roar, squeal and explosion - and those were just my pieces to camera.
In every country we needed special advice and we would have been lost without the help of Ernesto Juan Castellanos in Cuba, Elizabeth Nash and Robert Misik in Spain, Diane Saccilotto and Dajna Annese in Italy, Francoise Jamet and Brian Ferinden in Paris, Richard Bonham in Kenya, Patrick and Samantha Moray in Uganda, Mary Perkins, Carli Reardon, Rita Brown in Key West and Brad Leech in Petoskey.
Back at base camp, enormous thanks to Martin Cooper for stitching the television series together, to Eddie Mirzoeff for keeping a paternal eye, to my assistants Anne Chamberlain and Anouchka Harrison for making sense of my ravings, to Emily Lodge for paying our bills and especially to Anne James at Prominent Television for her help and inspiration.
Any list of those who have made things easier for us must be headed by Michael Katakis, Literary Rights Manager for the Hemingway Family, who has been a generous source of encouragement from the very beginning. His combination of expert knowledge of the subject and wonderful cooking skills is unequalled. I should also like to thank Kris Hardin, Natalia Henderson, David Boardman, Steve Plotkin and James Hill at the Kennedy Library, Mike Diehl, Alf Tonnesson, Hans Tovote, Dudley Clarke, Candace Eaton, Sherrie Levy and Suzanna Zsohar.
Last but not least my thanks to Michael Dover, my editor, for steering the book safely home, and to Basil Pao. He has travelled with me so often now that he won’t believe any compliments, but without his fine photographs there would be no book.
ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE REPRODUCED COURTESY OF:
Karsh of Ottawa (image on T-shirt) front cover; Robert Herrera Sotolongo; The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park; Little Traverse Historical Society; Adolfo Ermini Studios; Earl Theisen; Henry S. Villard; Helen Breaker, S.T.L. Lavelle; Gerardo Zaragueta; Hans Malmberg; Museo Ernest Hemingway Finca Vigia; A.E. Hotchner; Florida State News Bureau; Bar Floridita; George Leavens
All other archive photographs are reprinted by kind permission of the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F Kennedy Library
MAPS COURTESY OF:
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EXTRACTS FROM THE WRITINGS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY HAVE
BEEN TAKEN FROM THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS BY PERMISSION OF SCRIBNER A DIVISION OF SIMON & SCHUSTER INC.:
NOVELS:
The Sun Also Rises
(Copyright 1926 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed (c) 1954 by Ernest Hemingway);
A Farewell to Arms
(Copyright 1929 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed (c) 1957 by Ernest Hemingway);
Death in the Afternoon
(Copyright 1932 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed (c) 1960 by Ernest Hemingway);
Green Hills of Africa
(Copyright 1935 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed (c) 1963 by Mary Hemingway);
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Copyright 1940 by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright renewed (c) 1968 by Mary Hemingway);
Across the River and into the Trees
(Copyright 1950 by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright renewed (c) 1978 by Mary Hemingway);
The Old Man and the Sea
(Copyright 1952 by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright renewed (c) 1980 by Mary Hemingway);
A Moveable Feast
(Copyright (c) 1964 by Mary Hemingway. Copyright renewed (c) 1992 by John H. Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway and Gregory Hemingway. Copyright renewed (c) 1955 by Ernest Hemingway);
Islands in the Stream
(Copyright (c) 1970 by Mary Hemingway);
True at First Light
(Copyright (c) 1999)
SHORT STORIES: ‘Hills Like White Elephants’ (Copyright 1972 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed (c) 1955 by Ernest Hemingway); ‘Fathers and Sons’ (Copyright 1933 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed (c) 1961 by Mary Hemingway); ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ (Copyright 1936 by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright renewed (c) 1964 by Mary Hemingway); ‘Up in Michigan’ (Copyright 1938 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed (c) 1966 by Mary Hemingway)
THE NICK ADAMS STORIES: ‘The Indians Moved Away’; ‘On Writing’ (Copyright (c) 1972 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation)
LETTERS AND ARTICLES: Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917—1961, edited by Carlos Baker. (Copyright (c) 1981 The Ernest Hemingway Foundation Inc.); By-Line: Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White (Copyright 1933, 1934, 1935, 1944 by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright 1954 by the Estate of Ernest Hemingway. Copyright (c) 1967 by Mary Hemingway); Dateline: Toronto, edited by William White (Copyright (c) 1985 by Mary Hemingway, John Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway and Gregory Hemingway); extracts from Look magazine reprinted by permission of the Hemingway Estate.