Ernest Hemingway Biography: A Life of Love and Loss

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  • During his early years the future macho man’s mother dressed and treated him as a girl and his own son Gregory, would become a transvestite. He was known as Papa Hemingway and yet he had a distant relationship with his three sons. In the midst of the glowing tributes that the world heaped upon him he sunk to terrible lows, causing turmoil as he racked up awards. And then finally, in an act of desperation, he took his own life.
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ความคิดเห็น • 946

  • @musakaanalpar
    @musakaanalpar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +382

    The mother that dressed him as a girl when he was a child is demanding him to man-up. Strange....

    • @grant5603
      @grant5603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Kaan Alpar In those times it was commonplace for young boys to be dressed to look feminine. There are photos of Franklin Roosevelt dressed up as a girl when he was a young child.

    • @gojumpintothelake
      @gojumpintothelake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kaan Alpar just shut up

    • @bronktug2446
      @bronktug2446 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      robin dewling what’s wrong with you?

    • @mysterycrumble
      @mysterycrumble 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      man down

    • @gojumpintothelake
      @gojumpintothelake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @c ball still high are we

  • @mikilynne4558
    @mikilynne4558 3 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    "The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for. I believe the last part." - Ernest Hemingway

  • @enop2001
    @enop2001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    I learned 2 things: 1. He was a brilliant jerk 2. His mom was the queen of roasting.🤣🤣🤣

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      He said that his mother could take first prize in the annual festival of bitches. From what I have read about EH, she was a nasty piece of work.

    • @andreeadobre3190
      @andreeadobre3190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There might be a connection between the two 😅

    • @marijeta1110
      @marijeta1110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Lawrence Lewis so it’s a family thing!

    • @you-pt5jx
      @you-pt5jx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You must have outstanding grades.

  • @dynamicphotography_
    @dynamicphotography_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    I studied Hemingway in college when I was young.
    45 years old now, and it's shocking how much it has influenced me over the past couple of decades.

  • @paulsimmons5726
    @paulsimmons5726 6 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    What a terrific example of a man who literally made himself into his own vision of what he thought was best. It's a shame when time robs just enough of someone's talents for them to notice while leaving them to wonder what they need to do to climb back to their former glory. Unfortunately, hard drinking usually isn't the answer!

  • @Sommertest
    @Sommertest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +247

    10:45 “He walked out on his wife and son”... queue jaunty music

    • @jwk6343
      @jwk6343 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      sommertest1 doo duh do do do do do do do doooooo, do duh DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOOOOOO 🎶

    • @carrieanderson132
      @carrieanderson132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's golden

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In his old age, he wrote that he had wished he never met another woman after he met Hadly.

    • @NatAnnSch
      @NatAnnSch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So did the Buddha.

    • @newblue2468
      @newblue2468 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jwk6343 💀 that's hilarious

  • @agenttwenty-six6133
    @agenttwenty-six6133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    "What a guy!" - Randy Feltface

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    1:10 - Chapter 1 - Early life
    4:05 - Chapter 2 - War
    8:15 - Chapter 3 - Europe
    11:15 - Chapter 4 - Fisherman
    16:05 - Chapter 5 - WWII
    17:30 - Chapter 6 - Later life

  • @tacitus6384
    @tacitus6384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +331

    I like men being men, but I think his heightened levels of machismo may have been a compensatory mechanisms for what his mother did to him.

    • @TheKh65
      @TheKh65 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What about his dad's behaviour?

    • @bethjenkins4687
      @bethjenkins4687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Both parents were horrific in different ways, wow

    • @newblue2468
      @newblue2468 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Machismo is the way insecure men compensate. I agree manly men are good but it's always interesting and insightful to see a learn from a man's weaknesses. We can all grow from them.

    • @newblue2468
      @newblue2468 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@thomasslate53 idk what you're asking me exactly but no one's perfect and a person's faults sometimes help us understand and grow from our own.

    • @LukeandLucas
      @LukeandLucas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Or maybe he just enjoyed hunting, fishing, boxing and drinking?

  • @StaticImage
    @StaticImage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +665

    I'm still pushing for a Simon Whistler Biographic.

    • @StaticImage
      @StaticImage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      And yes, I am serious about this. I watch so many of your videos and see your face and hear your voice so much that it would be nice to get some information on the person behind it all.

    • @chriscueva1866
      @chriscueva1866 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Who dat?

    • @redwatch.
      @redwatch. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      On a dark and stormy night a loud burly alpha male was born...

    • @greghooper16
      @greghooper16 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He was born July 21st

    • @debrajones7344
      @debrajones7344 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@StaticImage You're not the first who's suggested it, Simon refuses. Period.

  • @dand8530
    @dand8530 6 ปีที่แล้ว +349

    I love the way I can play a biographics vid and cook a meal while only listening. Your ability to tell a story with little or in my case no visuals is amazing! Simon you are the best my friend. The visuals are good too though

    • @JEBavido
      @JEBavido 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here.

    • @jackdooley8732
      @jackdooley8732 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree too . Perhaps Simon is the new History Channel.

    • @DedMan516
      @DedMan516 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I listen while I am at work

    • @jackdooley8732
      @jackdooley8732 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, Even Simon may be shut down .History will be shut down due to political correctness. Advertising is king and reality is nonexistent

    • @Allthingstech3108
      @Allthingstech3108 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You must be smart yourself,you have succinctly put what hundreds of people must have thought.

  • @loopslytle
    @loopslytle 6 ปีที่แล้ว +182

    I never tire of reading 'The Old Man and the Sea.'

    • @swampivy12
      @swampivy12 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Reading it currently

    • @9mmkahr
      @9mmkahr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love when he adresses his hand as "hand"

    • @gigglyme2001
      @gigglyme2001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I got halfway though the book and got bored of the redundancy. I understood and appreciated the symbolisms but man, it was so boring!

    • @justinecooper9575
      @justinecooper9575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i highly recommend the audio book version read by the late Frank Muller.

    • @dannydufault6255
      @dannydufault6255 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gigglyme2001 Have you enjoyed other Hemingway books?

  • @robertgamsby4776
    @robertgamsby4776 6 ปีที่แล้ว +315

    My subscription feed is turning into a Simon whistler feed

    • @nicolaconnor
      @nicolaconnor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Robert Gamsby My TH-cam feed too

    • @aryiastark4698
      @aryiastark4698 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My feed is doing the same thing. Lol

    • @Christian-os3sh
      @Christian-os3sh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He's everywhere lmao, not that I'm complaining.

  • @openmypackage
    @openmypackage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +248

    John Steinbeck please.

    • @timdunn1979
      @timdunn1979 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Second this!!!

    • @jessicacanfield5408
      @jessicacanfield5408 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes I would like a biographics in John Steinbeck

    • @thugnomics123
      @thugnomics123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes! Can't believe it's not here yet.

  • @NelsonStJames
    @NelsonStJames 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I really like Hemingway's work as a writer, but it never ceases to amaze me how often we praise flamboyant individuals who manage to become famous in spite of behavior that we would vilify an average Joe Blow for.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      We let people who are super talented get away with a lot.

    • @emead528
      @emead528 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Biographicscause we are dumb.

  • @jasonpayne9474
    @jasonpayne9474 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I teach Hemingway to my high school juniors, and my biography video was damaged, so I used this one instead--excellent job! This goes a bit fast, but my students were able to take two pages full of notes. Thank you!

  • @rogerd.miller1095
    @rogerd.miller1095 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    The best 20 minute biography of my favorite writer. I'm 72 years old and still influenced by Hemingway. My only regret is that he did not leave us more short stories. I consider those to be his greatest genre. Thank you. I re-read all of Hemingway at least every two years. It never grows old. Hemingway considered F. Scott Fitsgerald to be American's greatest living writer. He was wrong.

    • @williamgoldman758
      @williamgoldman758 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hemingway was the better story-teller, NOT writer. Fitzgerald was the better WRITER. I'll take the beauty of This Side of Paradise any day.

    • @rogerd.miller1095
      @rogerd.miller1095 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@williamgoldman758 I won't disagree that Fitzgerald was the better writer. Hemingway himself thought so. But I'll take story telling any day.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Big, Two-Hearted River!

  • @jeffvance4610
    @jeffvance4610 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I am loving this new channel. The perfect balance of detailed facts and excellent story telling! Please keep it up!

  • @garretphegley8796
    @garretphegley8796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    10:52 that smile says "Damn I made a mistake."

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hemingway said, "If you are any good at all, it's always your fault!"

  • @JayDeeTatts
    @JayDeeTatts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Do Alan Turing! He was voted greatest person of the 20th century.

    • @stevencrawtr1145
      @stevencrawtr1145 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This would be a brilliant biography

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I agree. Both with OP and person above me.
      Alan Turing should be a household name. But sadly and surprisingly, few people know who he is. Had the movie about him not come out fairly recently, I imagine half as many people would know who he is. Video/s on him would reach a LOT of people, who would probably find it worth knowing.
      Our entire lives as we know them, in the US, would very possibly be gone, where it not for him. The US would probably function in a whole entirely different way, on so many levels.

    • @archit1939
      @archit1939 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Einstein,Gandhi: am I a joke to you

    • @Celtic_Blade
      @Celtic_Blade 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think he ruined the world. Got to give him credit for his role on the war though.

    • @ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502
      @ahumanbeingfromtheearth1502 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Celtic_Blade how?

  • @texas-raider
    @texas-raider 6 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Great video, only quibble is that in his suicide, he didn't use a hunting rifle, but rather a shotgun. Quite different. In fact, it was a W. & C. Scott & Son long-barreled, side-by-side pigeon gun. It was reportedly his favorite sporting shotgun and had been used in numerous completions and hunts all the way from East Africa to Cuba and, sadly, in Idaho. Anyway, nice video. If I may make a suggestion, Theodore Roosevelt would make an outstanding subject for a future bio. Thanks!

    • @waltermorris2246
      @waltermorris2246 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Teddy truly mans man

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And he bought that shotgun from the original Abercrombie and Fitch, which was a high end sporting goods store that sold firearms and camping gear. They went bankrupt and the brand was later sold so that teenagers everywhere could wear the same cheap fifty sent t-shirts that sold for over twenty dollars.

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@briancrawford8751 My father went to A & C in the 1950s and there was an exhibit of Hemingway's rifles and shotguns. It was on Madison Avenue as I recall. To any serious outdoorsman, A & C was the place you had to visit. Gary Cooper, Theodore Roosevelt, and others like Daryl F. Zanuck all went to A & C.

  • @lavagirl5522
    @lavagirl5522 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I grew up in Oak Park. Not very far from the Hemmingway family home, visited there as a child. Beautiful home.

    • @tracylalonde5813
      @tracylalonde5813 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@adammoore251 That was funny

    • @robertmaxwellbell9405
      @robertmaxwellbell9405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He said of Oak Park (great suburb btw if you avoid Cicero) "the land of broad lawns and narrow minds"

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have been to his house in Key West
      Nice!

  • @StonedGhst
    @StonedGhst 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love your channel its definitely rekindled my inner history nerd

  • @michaelleblanc7283
    @michaelleblanc7283 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    An Navigator uncle of mine, Jim', was an RCAF 'Poster Boy' for a short time in late 1943 early 1944 when he was in training. The newsman covering him at the time was Hemingway. Hemingway eventually followed uncle Jim to England where he met Jim together with his crew.
    As a stunt, Hemingway was a 'passenger' on the crew's 1st combat bombing mission with 98 Sqdn RAF. Approaching the target their B-25 'Mitchell' bomber was hit & damaged by 'Ack-Ack'. When the flak then concentrated on the wounded aircraft, a 'scene' developed involving Hemingway. My uncle had a wonderful sense of humour and a very funny way of describing the incident when he'd re-tell his 'Hemingway story'. It involved one of the crew having to knock Hemingway out and then tie him up to keep him under control. Before my uncle died, I made of point of getting the 'real story' from him - just for the record. In essence he said, the story was the same . . . Hemingway did panic but in fact, after being given a ‘stern’ talking to by the captain of the bomber, he did settle down.
    A 1944 newspaper clipping in Jim's scrapbook entitled 'I WENT BOMBING A P-PLANE WOOD' by MICHAEL MOYNIHAN News Chronicle Special Correspondent (also flying the same mission) describes the incident . . . "In one of the six Mitchells, I later learned, another passenger-observer was flying - Ernest Hemmingway**, author of "For Whom the Bell Tolls." His plane was twice hit. But for a Spanish Civil War Veteran, the experience cannot have been alarming."

  • @WickedGoodWood
    @WickedGoodWood 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    not only does the channel have fantastic writer, great narrating, in depth research that go hand in hand with its imagery, but the editing is very well done, Great job, once again. Always engaging and interesting, keep up the great work!

  • @felixthecat3n2
    @felixthecat3n2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Please don't add the silly sound effects every time a new image is shown. Simon's honeyed tones are more than enough on their glorious own!

    • @kimberleyreef4736
      @kimberleyreef4736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes! I couldn't listen.....drove me nuts. Between the pointless music and the swishing sound effect.....beyond annoying!

  • @uniquechannelnames
    @uniquechannelnames 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Maybe not be important to anyone, but if anyone is confused on why books like "Old Man and the Sea" are incredible books and so beloved when they seem so stripped down and perhaps almost empty, here's a couple things. One is that Hemingway wrote like an "iceberg" in that the surface prose was terse, concise, not heavy on description . A lot of the meat of the story is what is implied, or what is between the lines. I think a great way to understand Hemingway, his philosophy, and getting some guidance on better seeing the underside of that iceberg, is to read "For Whom the Bell Tolls". It is a more descriptive book, with some dives into his perspective and philosophy on many subjects, something that doesn't happen in his other books. It will definitely help you "get" his other works. And also, it's one of my all-time favourite books by any author, definitely in the top 10. The scene in the town with the lines, some of the most powerful writing ever. Also the genius way he depicted the speaking of Spanish vs. English while still keeping it all English. It's an incredible read.
    I feel like you need at least a bit of some life, social, and philosophical (even just introspective thinking) experience to make out that iceberg of Hemingway. I don't intend that to sound like gatekeeping, feel free to read whatever you wish, it's just my experience with at least a couple of Hemingway's works (The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea being examples.. After reading The Sun Also Rises (my first Hemingway) at like 19, I thought... what the fucking hell. (Kinda SPOILERS ahead) That was so stripped down, the story is just this aimless meandering nothingness, the ending was about as anticlimactic as it can get... . Yeah the description of the bull fighting was cool I guess but... At the time I couldn't understand the love for it, and the whole context of the lost generation, post WW1 cynicism etc...

  • @juliedurden5237
    @juliedurden5237 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Great video! Am so pleased to see you doing biographies now, as they are my favorite genre, and your narrating style brings history to life and makes it even more interesting. I loved the period music also!

  • @alexpressley5918
    @alexpressley5918 6 ปีที่แล้ว +183

    i love your videos but that damned music between facts. that looping damned music. it now haunts me.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Boo!

    • @m0zA2T
      @m0zA2T 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Biographics I agree surely you can find another public domain jingle to denote the times of old

    • @staceyrivers3297
      @staceyrivers3297 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Agreed! At least change it up a little.

    • @dannydufault6255
      @dannydufault6255 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Whatever do you mean? (Do doddleydo do dupedy do do dodoly dododly do dupedy do du doopidy dooodilly doooo....) Jk...I know what you mean.

    • @RickReasonnz
      @RickReasonnz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was REALLY repetitive

  • @devonboulden2496
    @devonboulden2496 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hey, you left out the part about getting rolls of nickles at the bank. His win for "The Old Man And The Sea" was thought to have been for "For Whom The Bell Tolls" because it was snubbed for its violence. Hell, I'd be thrilled to write less than 30,000 words and get one of the most coveted prizes for a writer.

  • @jamesschulziii9098
    @jamesschulziii9098 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the way you tell a story. You truly do justice to the legend of Hemingway and the late great Audie Murphy. Cheers sir.

  • @bobsteadman9728
    @bobsteadman9728 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simon, another great one. Damn, I'm glad you got the sound issues worked out on the music that plays between snippets. Your video on Patton music almost blew my computer speakers and my dog was none too happy either.

  • @mikemerrill4073
    @mikemerrill4073 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love this channel, great job. Oh, and I love the music in this video, very fitting.

  • @timg3504
    @timg3504 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I’ve been to his home in Havana and in Key West ! The boat is at his home in Havana. Great video.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Key West! Finca! Pilar! All great...

  • @MistahBryan
    @MistahBryan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Beautifully done :)

  • @bclr6843
    @bclr6843 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My grandfather met and knew him. His opinion was that he couldn’t fight, he just threw a lot of sucker punches. Any real one on one fights or boxing matches he actually lost handedly

  • @catman8670
    @catman8670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Like all people, he was a flawed human, unlike most, he was also a literary genius

    • @Denise-ho7bb
      @Denise-ho7bb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Well said! Simple and direct.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And his short stories are superb...

  • @ericflesher4912
    @ericflesher4912 6 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    A wild story to do for this channel would be that of GG Allin.

  • @maferogers8591
    @maferogers8591 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Well researched life story of Ernest Hemingway...excellent presentation.

  • @pasha_che
    @pasha_che ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You can't deny Ernest has lived it to the fullest

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I won't deny it. And that guy could write!

  • @charbuk
    @charbuk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    is anyone else bothered by that annoying sound effect used for the transitions?

    • @sMASHsound
      @sMASHsound 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      quite so. most of the episodes, the sound track does not suit, oft times takes away from the content it is in.
      who ever is responsible for those choices, needs to do a hemingway, their self

    • @iDementoR
      @iDementoR 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now when u mention it....

    • @FerndaleMichiganUSA
      @FerndaleMichiganUSA 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      and jerky head motions

    • @rudolphvalentino7181
      @rudolphvalentino7181 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes because it shakes my concentration

    • @lbj4993
      @lbj4993 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ok, so when I look at the comment section, which is almost like a love-fest of this narrator, I know I'm a weirdo anomaly...I absolutely hate this guys narration, his delivery, his cadence, his infliction but most of all i hate looking at his bubble-head in pretty much every frame of his videos; oh and I hate the break-neck speech delivery, but fortunately that can be lowered to .75 in settings, which makes it tollerable, but I love information which keeps me coming back for more. Now I should mention that I can watch plays, narrations, as in Richard Burton or Peter O'toole going at it endlessly about whatever, and the joy of just listening to real voices and speach, almost no matter the subject, is to die for. However, looking and listening to this smug bubble-head drives me to drink. Cheers

  • @golith41
    @golith41 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    who knew treating a boy who was born like a boy as a girl in his formative years would have psychological damning effects on him. Who could have foreseen this.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Many Victorian moms dressed their sons as girls
      Standard.

  • @evanflowforever6615
    @evanflowforever6615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Perfected the art of being concise. Never really blown away by his writing, but he was talented. Judging by his lifestyle, sounds very distracted and tortured.

  • @MirekHeikkila
    @MirekHeikkila 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Yay another channel with Simon!! sweet! GJ and GL!

  • @silkaverage
    @silkaverage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    wow, For someone who bluffed,lied and cheated his way through life, I find myself having an enormous amount of respect for him and his achievements

    • @justinedse8435
      @justinedse8435 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And the fact remains, you couldn't carry Hemingway's jock strap.

  • @youtube2snoopy820
    @youtube2snoopy820 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great show, couple details: 1) Hemingway's first book - In Our Time - was a small release, like 1,500 copies, wherein among other things he told stories - intimate, life shattering stories involving murder, incest, infidelity, etc - about the people from his hometown, he didn't change their names in the book; 2) Hemingway didn't just have one airplane accident while flying out of Africa, he had two. In a row. This was shortly after he had made certain sh1tlists for agreeing with communist cuba's leadership and , separately, reviling the US military for the way it treated veterans working on the Key Highway when a hurricane was coming, said so many US veterans had drowned in the hurricane (which he said had been 'forecasting its arrival to anyone who could read a barometer' and that nonetheless the soldiers had not been evacuated from their work camps at about 5 feet above sea level), that one could 'walk on their rotting bodies all the way from Miami to Key West' or its ilk. Then, surprise, his plane went down on takeoff. He survived that, got another plane, and THAT one crashed on takeoff too. The resulting head injuries affected him the rest of his life. 3) he did not die by hunting rifle. It was a shotgun.

  • @rwheels6471
    @rwheels6471 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandpa played hockey back in the 30's. He told us they made their own sticks and the only protective gear worn was Colliers magazine wrapped around their shins, as it was a rather thick publication. The goalies wore the same thing. Hardcore

  • @leeabbott3983
    @leeabbott3983 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    What song is that old type music or the tune you play through the transitions? I absolutely loved it! Love these videos! This one especially.

    • @annadickins3868
      @annadickins3868 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Look up jazz age or flapper music

    • @jazzbo13
      @jazzbo13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The piece is called,I Wonder Where My Baby is Tonight, by Ben Selvin's Orchestra. He also helped to develop MUZAK.

  • @supersash3157
    @supersash3157 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    A wonderful video I thoroughly enjoyed it. I was hoping you would have delved a bit deeper in Hemingway's parental skills or lack thereof.

    • @daTruChosen
      @daTruChosen 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me, too. Never knew that about him. Both his granddaughters; Mariel and Margaux, worshipped him, though.

  • @scottpeterson7500
    @scottpeterson7500 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It’s interesting to compare and contrast Hemingway with Teddy Roosevelt, similarities but also huge differences.

  • @thetroutcountry9494
    @thetroutcountry9494 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This video begins with a glaring error. Hemingway was not born 1 July 1899. He was born on 21 July of that year. Also, the suicide weapon was a shotgun, not a rifle.

  • @danielchapman547
    @danielchapman547 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    What an unreal, amazing son of a bitch. I love Hemingway’s work. He had an incredible life.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One of the last real American men...

  • @tomthebomb123
    @tomthebomb123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A William S Burroughs video would be fantastic

  • @rekarious7996
    @rekarious7996 6 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Could you do J.R.R. Tolkien next?

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He is the top vote getter so far.

    • @Dos_Caffeine
      @Dos_Caffeine 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gotta love biographies on the lost generation writers.

    • @Urban_Piggy
      @Urban_Piggy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rekarious oh and Epictetus!

  • @risboturbide9396
    @risboturbide9396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video. Merci beaucoup

  • @SaracenCount
    @SaracenCount ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Weird the Nobel Prize didn't show up on this video.

  • @SoumitraVichare
    @SoumitraVichare 6 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    Please do a David Bowie ❤

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      We did a fun list about David Bowie on our sister site. www.toptenz.net/10-far-facts-david-bowie.php

    • @SoumitraVichare
      @SoumitraVichare 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Biographics you the MVP Simon ❤

  • @Supermatsch
    @Supermatsch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Interesting video but I missed some facts: Hemingway survived two plane crashes within 24 hour hours! The relationship with his mother was so strained that he did not attend her funeral in 1951. And his father who suffered from depressions (or being bipolar) committed suicide in 1928. After Hemingway's suicide two of his siblings committed suicide, too. And 35 years after his death did so his niece. So it looks like almost the whole family was prone to depression.

    • @applesandgrapesfordinner4626
      @applesandgrapesfordinner4626 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It didn't help that he may have inherited a hereditary disease that involves overexcessive absorption of iron.

  • @quasicroissant
    @quasicroissant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anything: happens
    Hemingway: Hmm, I could write a book about this

  • @rebeccamaracle2878
    @rebeccamaracle2878 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm going to hear that music in my nightmares now. It must have repeated 200 times. I felt like I was on hold.

  • @Vamendozalc
    @Vamendozalc 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Hemongway stayed for 3 weeks in the Peruvian Port of Cabo Blanco, where he caught a huge Marlin fish. Locals remember him speaking perfect Spanish.

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That must have been when they were filming The Old Man. He was the second unit director and the scenes were filmed off Peru.

  • @mattjohnston2
    @mattjohnston2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just came from your top ten video as per your request, and I'm glad I did. Great job on the video, you've earned my sub!
    Now I'm off to binge watch the rest :D

  • @TheChuckfuc
    @TheChuckfuc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    to have and to have not is arguably is his most underrated novel.

  • @DanielMedina-yi1nj
    @DanielMedina-yi1nj หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have read, now that I just read Moveable Feast, four Hemingway novels and some short tales, and just realised I knew nothing of this man. Great video, made the book even more enjoyable now that I know all this stuff.

  • @one-of-us9939
    @one-of-us9939 6 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    I had learned long ago he was a great man and writer and i knew he committed suicide.
    Now that I have learned about his memory loss, as a fellow writer...
    I understand why.
    Much love to Simon and crew.

    • @one-of-us9939
      @one-of-us9939 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      If y'all had a PayPal address I'd donate.

    • @one-of-us9939
      @one-of-us9939 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    • @dansmithbyu1784
      @dansmithbyu1784 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seems strange he underwent electroshock therapy when that is a known side effect...

    • @DJDoener
      @DJDoener 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you sure it was well known back in the 60s?

    • @sebastianyu5383
      @sebastianyu5383 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Indeed. A writer losing his memory would be like an archer losing his arms, or a singer their voice

  • @homeofmyown
    @homeofmyown 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love anything you do so I subbed.

  • @generationrednex3217
    @generationrednex3217 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    About 1/2 mile from my house is the Hemingway-Pfeiffer museum. He wrote part of a Farewell To Arms. I remember growing up and the old men telling us (sometimes unflattering) stories of him

  • @soumiabenrekia5796
    @soumiabenrekia5796 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video. Only you haven't mentioned his Iceberg theory.

  • @jaynedavis4667
    @jaynedavis4667 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    All boys were dressed as girls in the early 20th century, my dad was born in 1918, Ive got pictures of him in a little white dress, he got his shorts when he was four.

    • @Tyler_Smiler
      @Tyler_Smiler 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Jayne Davis I thought that at first but I think Mrs. Hemingway went a little farther than just the clothing.

    • @magistrumartium
      @magistrumartium 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yes, in those days they were practical and frugal. Why buy special clothes for a toddler? A boy or girl might as well wear the same thing.

    • @therealstubot
      @therealstubot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My dad was born in 1945. My grandmother dressed him up in little dresses, and let his hair grow long. All the pictures of my dad as a child were very "girly".

    • @waltermorris2246
      @waltermorris2246 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Nicholas Ennos Prokf?

    • @miriamhavard7621
      @miriamhavard7621 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      most weren't dressed as girls till age 10, though.
      Also, they were typically referred to as boys and otherwise raised as such.

  • @chanelhenderson8460
    @chanelhenderson8460 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "There is no hunting like the hunting of a man and those who have hunted armed men long enough & liked it never care for anything else thereafter."

    • @johndunbar1678
      @johndunbar1678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was Charles Askins...

    • @johndunbar1678
      @johndunbar1678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@l.d.jackson6755 you'll not get any argument from me on that statement. I agree one hundred percent!

    • @writerartist5822
      @writerartist5822 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He never hunted man. He never served in any military unit. Period.

    • @chanelhenderson8460
      @chanelhenderson8460 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@writerartist5822 what does that have do with this quote....

    • @chanelhenderson8460
      @chanelhenderson8460 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johndunbar1678 not according to Hemmingways story On the Blue Water it isnt

  • @TheJohn93226
    @TheJohn93226 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." - Ernest Hemingway

  • @johnolmos8670
    @johnolmos8670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He is a great influence on Bartending and drinking culture as well personally creating a couple of cocktails himself like Death in the Afternoon and the Papa Doble. He loves going to La Floridita bar in Cuba and was such a frequent customer the staff would call him Papa.

  • @SafetySpooon
    @SafetySpooon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Wow, Hemingway was an even bigger jerk than I thought!

  • @mczenk5095
    @mczenk5095 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another great video.

  • @robynwaugh1446
    @robynwaugh1446 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I learned more about Hemingway from your 20 minute video than I did from a six week unit in AP English. Very informative and presented in a way that actually kept my interest :)

  • @shokhanmohammedfatah3000
    @shokhanmohammedfatah3000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is amazing, detailed and informative. Although it is a little bit fast 🥰

  • @_datapoint
    @_datapoint 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    And he was friends with Castro. There is a port in Cuba called Hemingway harbor, which I sailed into with my father in 2016. There is a restaurant there called "Papas".

    • @joecool2810
      @joecool2810 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I heard that feds were after him because he also worked for the KGB. So it makes sense that he was friends with Castro

    • @mr.grumpy
      @mr.grumpy 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joecool2810 McCarthy and the feds thought everyone worked for the KGB. Hemingway's fame, his dedication of his Nobel prize to the Cuban people, and his fishing fame inevitably brought him into the sphere of Castro. Hemingway maintained a courteous distance though.

  • @carolynclark4697
    @carolynclark4697 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    very. informative video good job Simon! :)

  • @mikemartinez9101
    @mikemartinez9101 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoy your channel. Your take on interesting historical figures is short enough not be boring yet filled with enough facts to allow the watcher to get a real feel for the subject. Keep up the good work.

  • @ml66b
    @ml66b 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the mix of rambunctiousness and mispronunciations. It’s a great mix LOL

  • @Wahrscheinlichkeit
    @Wahrscheinlichkeit 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Please do videos on Heisenberg, Bohr, Schrödinger , Gauss , Euler , Newton and Ramanujan

  • @michaelbatts5655
    @michaelbatts5655 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Do Charlemagne next

  • @libertygiveme1987
    @libertygiveme1987 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Simon, Thank-You. I was ALWAYS a FAN of Ernest Hemingway, and was aware that he took his own life, but had NO IDEA he was such a LOUSY FATHER!!!! Maybe one of the reason's he had 'BOUTS OF DEPRESSION'!!!! That would make sense.

  • @benwil1715
    @benwil1715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Simon,.....your delivery overshadows the music....i quite like the music..."see".....i feel like Al Capone strapped into a deepsea fishing chair.....drunk on the debauchery of life!!!!!!!.....thumbs ☝

  • @thebitgamer2425
    @thebitgamer2425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Fun fact. My Scoutmaster is the great-nephew of Ernest Hemingway, and his family owns Hemingway’s cottage on Walloon Lake in Michigan

  • @johnnyappleseed3093
    @johnnyappleseed3093 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just to let you know Mr Whistler, _I_ was listening.

  • @anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551
    @anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Subbed first video im ever seeing here but i see the other titles and like how he fits so much in so fast, i love bios but dont always care enough about people for an hour or two, this gives people a quick brush over in vast detail and if we wish we find longer bios.

  • @mr.iforgot3062
    @mr.iforgot3062 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    He was a good man. A perfect roll model to any American.

  • @kingravenink
    @kingravenink 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The same music clips over and over are a bit annoying

  • @hazevthewolf178
    @hazevthewolf178 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simon & Friends: It's nice not to be too late to the party. I've watched your videos about Steve Jobs and Earnest Hemingway and all I can say, without excessive wordiness, is that this is a fascinating channel, really fascinating, actually. I subscribed the moment I landed here. I knew I wasn't going to be disappointed. *Edit* ~ I'm back after watching your video about Queen Elizabeth. Is Winston Churchill on your short list?

  • @moeshipley4170
    @moeshipley4170 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Many sources indicate that Hemingway ended it all using a W&C Scott side-by-side 12-bore shotgun, rather than a rifle. The shotgun was apparently destroyed by a local welder, who buried most of the bits in a local field. Excellent video, Simon, as are all the others you've made.

  • @gloriahufnagel5556
    @gloriahufnagel5556 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this young mans voice,, so soothing yet I’m getting facts,, very interesting

  • @constipatedinsincity4424
    @constipatedinsincity4424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simon this music is hilarious especially how your seamless it's weaved through out the Video !

  • @johnspera8369
    @johnspera8369 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    excellent job, guys! do you realize there hasn"t been 1 "dislike" yet on this channel? well done! clearly he was a gifted, and yet kinda vile guy at the dame time... interesting.

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, there are 9 dislikes at this time. Mostly on our HH Holmes video: th-cam.com/video/qkmJ2i4kZ1c/w-d-xo.html

    • @davidtownsend6092
      @davidtownsend6092 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      John Spera you jynxed it :/

    • @calichef1962
      @calichef1962 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      And there is one dislike on this video now, and I really can't imagine why! I think Simon has a few haters that maybe haven't found this channel until now. I don't think rational people should have any problems with Today I Found Out or Top Tenz. I think they're just jealous. Simon has good instincts and ideas and has created a very successful brand. He was blessed with a soothing voice, born to a good, English family and he speaks with the universally "proper" "received pronunciation" style.
      I just wish I could get him to listen when it comes to Spanish pronunciations. I left a comment once explaining the rules, but it didn't help. I even volunteered to let him call me for correct pronunciation of Spanish words, any time, day or night. No response. You'd think he would call his Visual Politik partner to get correct Spanish pronunciations. But, (sigh) nope.

    • @briancrawford8751
      @briancrawford8751 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +calichef1962 I wish he'd listened to me regarding Latin pronunciations. I think Simon has "Papa" Hemingway's ego. You won't get him to change. It may have to do with the huge number of videos he makes. He churns them out like soap operas, so of course the quality will suffer.

  • @klartext08
    @klartext08 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this may be your best channel. brilliant.

  • @Max-tr4wu
    @Max-tr4wu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just discovered this channel, i freaking love it, Well done!!! Cant get enough

  • @ryanhayward2161
    @ryanhayward2161 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great video, my favourite author!!

    • @Biographics
      @Biographics  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      One of my favorite authors as well. Have you seen the movie Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen? -Shell

    • @ryanhayward2161
      @ryanhayward2161 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Biographics No, I haven't. The description on IMDB interest me, though. I'll look into it. The 20's era authors are top on my list

    • @Tyler_Smiler
      @Tyler_Smiler 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I basically took an entire class on the author's in "Midnight in Paris". It was about the Modernist writers in Paris in the 1920's. Stein, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Rhys, and more!

  • @alg11297
    @alg11297 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    He also claimed to have had sex with Mata Hari. It's interesting that his stories and novels aren't taught anymore. He was an event of his time.

    • @NelsonStJames
      @NelsonStJames 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Hemmingway is not a very good fit for our politically correct times. Besides it would be infuriating to have to sit through literary classes and being constantly reminded of how "problematic" some writer is because of their lifestyle, views, or their writings. Rest assured that Hemmingway will be rediscovered by future generations that are a bit more nonjudgmental.

    • @DrFumesta
      @DrFumesta 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Literally no one in the Millenial generation has created ANYTHING of actual artistic value, but they are egomaniacal enough to believe they can criticize HEMINGWAY.

    • @association330
      @association330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not sure what you're talking about. His short stories are definitely still taught by any instructor worth a damn, at least as of 10 years ago.

    • @shebbs1
      @shebbs1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well apart from the fact that he was a consumate BS artist, especially regarding his war record, his political incorrectness is something that sterile modern literature, which has to be PC it seems, cannot beat.

    • @spenserwilliams9167
      @spenserwilliams9167 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @John Stroud you're proving him right 😂🤟🤦‍♂️

  • @WhitleyAKW
    @WhitleyAKW 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ll be visiting Hemingway’s Key West home soon so I thought I’d get a head start and learn a little about his life beforehand. Very informative video.

    • @marknewton6984
      @marknewton6984 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice place. Also Sloppy Joe's.😮

  • @leoneli4206
    @leoneli4206 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    one of the most successful biographies I've ever seen. your attempts deserve more! thank u so much!!