Ernest Hemingway 1899 1961 Ernest Miller Hemingway July

Ernest Hemingway 1899 -1961

Ernest Miller Hemingway • • • July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961 He was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, strongly influenced 20 th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. He lived an adventurous life – soldier, journalist, foreign correspondent, writer, outdoorsman, athlete. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid 1920 s and the mid-1950 s, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.

Works by Hemingway Novels • The Torrents of Spring (1925) • The Sun Also Rises (1926) • A Farewell to Arms (1929) • To Have and Have Not(1937) • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) • Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) • The Old Man and the Sea (1952) • Adventures of a Young Man (1962) • Islands in the Stream (1970) • The Garden of Eden (1986)

Nonfiction • Death in the Afternoon (1932) • Green Hills of Africa (1935) • The Dangerous Summer (1960) • A Moveable Feast (1964) Short Story Collections • Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) • In Our Time (1925) • Men Without Women (1927) • The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1932) • Winner Take Nothing (1933) • The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) • The Essential Hemingway (1947) • The Hemingway Reader (1953) • The Nick Adams Stories (1972)

"A Day's Wait" is a short story which appears in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, first printed in 1933. Like much of Hemingway’s writing, “A Day’s Wait, is based on actual events in Hemingway’s life. While Hemingway was living in France, his son came down with a high fever and reacted similarly to the boy in the story you will read.

“A Day’s Wait” - Vocabulary • covey- n. a small group or flock of birds, especially partridges or quail • detached- adj. separated; disconnected detach - v. to disconnect or separate • epidemic- n. an outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly among many people • evidently- adv. obviously; clearly • slack- adj. not firm or tight; loose