Status Updates From Ernest Hemingway: A Life Fr...

◾In 1935, he caught a shark and tried to shoot it before hoisting it onto the boat; instead, when the shark slipped, he shot himself in both his legs.
◾Hemingway was in a car crash and suffered a concussion, as well as receiving 57 stitches on his head. Despite lingering headaches, he was able to report on the Allied landing at Normandy.

◾“People in a novel, not skillfully constructed characters, must be projected from the writer’s assimilated experience, from his knowledge, from his head, from his heart and from all there is of him.”—Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
◾“chasing yesterdays is a bum show.”
◾“Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.”

◾During Hemingway’s early childhood, Grace acted on her wish that her son had been a girl by dressing him as a twin to his sister, Marcelline, 18 months older. Little boys often wore dresses at the time, but not the frilly dresses and bonnets in which Grace dressed her son. He even had dolls and a tea set that matched Marcelline’s.
◾“I’ve only got about 50 more years to live, and I don’t want to waste any of them.”

◾Ernest Hemingway has sometimes been called one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
◾His last novel, The Old Man and the Sea, won him the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, and he also won the Nobel Prize in literature.