Ernest Hemingway Facts | Facts about Ernest Hemingways

When did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize?

Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Ernest Hemingway was an ambulance driver in World War I and was wounded.

Ernest Hemingway's "iceberg theory" means leaving most of a story's meaning beneath the surface.

The six-toed cats at Hemingway's Key West home are descended from his cat Snow White.

Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in Africa in 1954, and some newspapers mistakenly ran his obituary.

Ernest Hemingway often wrote standing up.

In 1922, a suitcase with Hemingway's early manuscripts was stolen from his wife Hadley at a Paris train station.

Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for "The Old Man and the Sea."

The famous six-word story about baby shoes is often credited to Hemingway, but there's no proof he wrote it.

Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Sun Also Rises" made the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, famous.