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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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."
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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".
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ☝
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
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.
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?
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 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.
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.
Fantastic video, but you spelled Hemingway wrong in the title. Still liking the new bio channel. Keep them coming. *:-)* *Edit* Not wrong now. Still love the vids.
For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the greatest books ever written in my opinion. It was full of real emotions, sorrow, and love that made it different than any other war story I've read.
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!
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.
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.
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.
"The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for. I believe the last part." - Ernest Hemingway
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.
how so?
its good that you are alive
@@avairal5936 😆🤣
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!
The mother that dressed him as a girl when he was a child is demanding him to man-up. Strange....
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.
Kaan Alpar just shut up
robin dewling what’s wrong with you?
man down
@c ball still high are we
I'm still pushing for a Simon Whistler Biographic.
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.
Who dat?
On a dark and stormy night a loud burly alpha male was born...
He was born July 21st
@@StaticImage You're not the first who's suggested it, Simon refuses. Period.
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
I learned 2 things: 1. He was a brilliant jerk 2. His mom was the queen of roasting.🤣🤣🤣
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.
There might be a connection between the two 😅
@Lawrence Lewis so it’s a family thing!
You must have outstanding grades.
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
Same here.
I agree too . Perhaps Simon is the new History Channel.
I listen while I am at work
Yeah, Even Simon may be shut down .History will be shut down due to political correctness. Advertising is king and reality is nonexistent
You must be smart yourself,you have succinctly put what hundreds of people must have thought.
"What a guy!" - Randy Feltface
I never tire of reading 'The Old Man and the Sea.'
Reading it currently
I love when he adresses his hand as "hand"
I got halfway though the book and got bored of the redundancy. I understood and appreciated the symbolisms but man, it was so boring!
i highly recommend the audio book version read by the late Frank Muller.
@@gigglyme2001 Have you enjoyed other Hemingway books?
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.
What about his dad's behaviour?
Both parents were horrific in different ways, wow
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.
@@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.
Or maybe he just enjoyed hunting, fishing, boxing and drinking?
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!
10:45 “He walked out on his wife and son”... queue jaunty music
sommertest1 doo duh do do do do do do do doooooo, do duh DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOOOOOO 🎶
That's golden
In his old age, he wrote that he had wished he never met another woman after he met Hadly.
So did the Buddha.
@@jwk6343 💀 that's hilarious
My subscription feed is turning into a Simon whistler feed
Robert Gamsby My TH-cam feed too
My feed is doing the same thing. Lol
He's everywhere lmao, not that I'm complaining.
I am loving this new channel. The perfect balance of detailed facts and excellent story telling! Please keep it up!
John Steinbeck please.
Second this!!!
Yes I would like a biographics in John Steinbeck
Yes! Can't believe it's not here yet.
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.
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.
@@williamgoldman758 I won't disagree that Fitzgerald was the better writer. Hemingway himself thought so. But I'll take story telling any day.
Big, Two-Hearted River!
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.
We let people who are super talented get away with a lot.
@@Biographicscause we are dumb.
Alcohol good
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!
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!
Do Alan Turing! He was voted greatest person of the 20th century.
This would be a brilliant biography
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.
Einstein,Gandhi: am I a joke to you
I think he ruined the world. Got to give him credit for his role on the war though.
@@Celtic_Blade how?
I grew up in Oak Park. Not very far from the Hemmingway family home, visited there as a child. Beautiful home.
@@adammoore251 That was funny
He said of Oak Park (great suburb btw if you avoid Cicero) "the land of broad lawns and narrow minds"
I have been to his house in Key West
Nice!
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!
Teddy truly mans man
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.
@@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.
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
And the fact remains, you couldn't carry Hemingway's jock strap.
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!
Yes! I couldn't listen.....drove me nuts. Between the pointless music and the swishing sound effect.....beyond annoying!
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."
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
Yay another channel with Simon!! sweet! GJ and GL!
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.
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.
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
Love your channel its definitely rekindled my inner history nerd
Anything: happens
Hemingway: Hmm, I could write a book about this
Love this channel, great job. Oh, and I love the music in this video, very fitting.
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.
Beautifully done :)
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.
Many Victorian moms dressed their sons as girls
Standard.
@@marknewton6984 but detrimental
i love your videos but that damned music between facts. that looping damned music. it now haunts me.
Boo!
@@Biographics I agree surely you can find another public domain jingle to denote the times of old
Agreed! At least change it up a little.
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.
That was REALLY repetitive
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.
Well researched life story of Ernest Hemingway...excellent presentation.
I’ve been to his home in Havana and in Key West ! The boat is at his home in Havana. Great video.
Key West! Finca! Pilar! All great...
is anyone else bothered by that annoying sound effect used for the transitions?
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
Now when u mention it....
and jerky head motions
Yes because it shakes my concentration
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
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.
Great video. Merci beaucoup
Could you do J.R.R. Tolkien next?
He is the top vote getter so far.
Gotta love biographies on the lost generation writers.
Rekarious oh and Epictetus!
A wild story to do for this channel would be that of GG Allin.
What an unreal, amazing son of a bitch. I love Hemingway’s work. He had an incredible life.
One of the last real American men...
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
Weird the Nobel Prize didn't show up on this video.
this may be your best channel. brilliant.
You can't deny Ernest has lived it to the fullest
I won't deny it. And that guy could write!
Like all people, he was a flawed human, unlike most, he was also a literary genius
Well said! Simple and direct.
And his short stories are superb...
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.
That must have been when they were filming The Old Man. He was the second unit director and the scenes were filmed off Peru.
one of the most successful biographies I've ever seen. your attempts deserve more! thank u so much!!
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.
Jayne Davis I thought that at first but I think Mrs. Hemingway went a little farther than just the clothing.
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.
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".
@Nicholas Ennos Prokf?
most weren't dressed as girls till age 10, though.
Also, they were typically referred to as boys and otherwise raised as such.
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 :)
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.
If y'all had a PayPal address I'd donate.
❤
Seems strange he underwent electroshock therapy when that is a known side effect...
Are you sure it was well known back in the 60s?
Indeed. A writer losing his memory would be like an archer losing his arms, or a singer their voice
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.
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.
Me, too. Never knew that about him. Both his granddaughters; Mariel and Margaux, worshipped him, though.
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.
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.
It didn't help that he may have inherited a hereditary disease that involves overexcessive absorption of iron.
I love the mix of rambunctiousness and mispronunciations. It’s a great mix LOL
"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."
That was Charles Askins...
@@l.d.jackson6755 you'll not get any argument from me on that statement. I agree one hundred percent!
He never hunted man. He never served in any military unit. Period.
@@writerartist5822 what does that have do with this quote....
@@johndunbar1678 not according to Hemmingways story On the Blue Water it isnt
He was a good man. A perfect roll model to any American.
A William S Burroughs video would be fantastic
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.
It’s interesting to compare and contrast Hemingway with Teddy Roosevelt, similarities but also huge differences.
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.
Please do a David Bowie ❤
We did a fun list about David Bowie on our sister site. www.toptenz.net/10-far-facts-david-bowie.php
Biographics you the MVP Simon ❤
Fascinating. I love your work.
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.
Look up jazz age or flapper music
The piece is called,I Wonder Where My Baby is Tonight, by Ben Selvin's Orchestra. He also helped to develop MUZAK.
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 ☝
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
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.
Love anything you do so I subbed.
Just discovered this channel, i freaking love it, Well done!!! Cant get enough
Another great video.
I'm going to hear that music in my nightmares now. It must have repeated 200 times. I felt like I was on hold.
Simon this music is hilarious especially how your seamless it's weaved through out the Video !
Thank you! Great video.
Please do videos on Heisenberg, Bohr, Schrödinger , Gauss , Euler , Newton and Ramanujan
Great video. Only you haven't mentioned his Iceberg theory.
Fun fact. My Scoutmaster is the great-nephew of Ernest Hemingway, and his family owns Hemingway’s cottage on Walloon Lake in Michigan
I love this young mans voice,, so soothing yet I’m getting facts,, very interesting
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?
Dressing "like a girl" (wearing dresses) was normal for newborns back then. FDR's baby pics show the same thing.
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".
I heard that feds were after him because he also worked for the KGB. So it makes sense that he was friends with Castro
@@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.
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.
Just to let you know Mr Whistler, _I_ was listening.
Fantastic video, but you spelled Hemingway wrong in the title. Still liking the new bio channel. Keep them coming. *:-)*
*Edit* Not wrong now. Still love the vids.
Another amazing video I am addicted to this new channel so glad that you are making such top notch material please keep up the great work!!!!!
This is amazing, detailed and informative. Although it is a little bit fast 🥰
Wow, Hemingway was an even bigger jerk than I thought!
Wow, very informative. Thx!
very. informative video good job Simon! :)
For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the greatest books ever written in my opinion. It was full of real emotions, sorrow, and love that made it different than any other war story I've read.
Great video, my favourite author!!
One of my favorite authors as well. Have you seen the movie Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen? -Shell
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
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!
I am addicted to Simon Whistler's and his co-workers' work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@John Stroud you're proving him right 😂🤟🤦♂️
Such a big fan of your channel. Learned alot from your cast over the years thanks mate