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