If Famous Writers Had CVs – Ernest Hemingway

What if history’s famous writers had CVs? We continue our series #FamousWritersResume with another candidate, Ernest Hemingway. Do you love his style?

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Journalist, novelist, short-story writer

Personal Profile

A hard-working and experienced writer, journalist, traveler, sportsman, soldier, and fisherman.

Contact

hemingway@gmail.com

942-856-324

linkedin.com/bell-tolls

Education

Oak Park and River Forest High School, 1917

• Trapeze and Tabula (the school’s newspaper and yearbook), editor;

• dabbled in sports like track and football but fell in love with boxing.

Self-education, 1918 – present

• Self-education through classical literature and life;

Work Experience

The Kansas City Star, cub reporter

1917

• covered deaths, trials, robberies, murders confidence games, prostitution;

Italy, World War I, ambulance driver for the Red Cross

1918

• received the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery;
• wounded by mortar fire, returned home;

The Toronto Star Weekly, freelancer and staff writer, foreign correspondent in Europe

1920-1924

• travelled extensively — 10,000 miles in one year;
• wrote reports and feature stories on the social and political scene in postwar Europe;
• covered the Greco-Turkish war

Cooperative Commonwealth, associate editor

1921

Published author

1923 – Present

• published “The Sun Also Rises”, “Men Without Women”, “A Farewell to Arms”;
• wrote a treatise on bullfighting “Death in the Afternoon”;
• sailed the pristine waters of The Bahamas, traveled to Cuba;
• hunting, fishing with Dos Passos.

East Africa, Adventurer

1933-1934

• went on safari;
• collected material for “Green Hills of Africa”;
• survived dysentery

North American Newspaper Alliance, War correspondent

1937

• covered the Spanish Civil War;
• supported the beleaguered Spanish Republic;
• wrote “The Fifth Column”, as Madrid was being bombarded by Francoist forces
• started “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (published in 1940).

World War II, submarine hunter

1942-1943

• patrolled the Caribbean Sea, armed with machine guns, bazookas, and grenades;
• hunted German Submarines

Collier’s Magazine, journalist

1944-1945

• accompanied the troops to the Normandy Landings;
• was awarded a Bronze Star;
• became the leader of a French Resistance militia in Rambouillet, aiding in the Liberation of Paris

Skills

• Writing
• Editing
• Good with French and German, fluent in Spanish
• Leadership
• Military First Aid
• Good Semi-professional Boxer