"A Farewell to Arms", 1929: Novel, which incarnates the author's sense of war's immortality through the story of the U.S. officer and a British nurse in wartime Italy and neutral Switzerland.
"To Have Not", 1937: novel.
"For Whom the Bells Tolls", 1940: Novel, set during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), telling of an idealistic young American who has come to Spain to fight with the Republican army.
"Across the River and into the Trees", 1950: novel
"The Old Man and the Sea", 1952: Novel, the heroic story of and aged Cuban fisherman's long struggle to gaff a giant marlin, only to have it eaten by voracious sharks on the long voyage home.
1929 United States-Boston, MA: Five issues of Scriber's Magazine were prohibited because they contained the story of "A Farewell to Arms" . Robert Herrick attacked "A Farewell to Arms" in an article entitled "What Is Dirt?" in the November issue of Bookman.
1930 Boston MA: "The Sun Also Rises" was banned.
1933 Germany: Works burned in the Nazi bonfires.
1938 United States-Detroit, MI: "To Have and Have Not" was removed from public sale and from circulation in the public library, but preserved among works by "writers of standing." It was also barred from sale by the Prosecutor of Wayne County on complaint of Catholic organizations.
1939 Ireland: "A Farewell to Arms" banned.
1941 United States-New York, NY: When the Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board recommended "For Whom the Bells Tolls" for the 1940 prize, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler said "I hope that you will reconsider before you ask the University to be associated with an award for work of this nature."
1953 Ireland: "The Sun also Rises" and "Across the River and into the Trees" were banned.
1956 South Africa-Johannesburg: "Across the River and into the Trees" was banned as "objectionable and obscene."
1938 United States-Detroit, MI.: "To Have and Have Not "was reported by the American Civil Liberties Union as the only book suppressed during the year. In New York distribution was forbidden in the Borough of Queens.
1940 United States-New York, N.Y.: There was no Pulitzer price for fiction for 1940. The Post Office in the same year declared the book nonmailable.
1954 Sweden-Stockholm: Awarded Nobel prize for literature for "The Old Man and the Sea."
1960 United States-California: "The Sun Also Rises" banned from San Jose schools. All Hemingway's book withdrawn from Riverside school libraries.
1962 United States: "Texans for America" opposed textbooks which referred students to books by Hemingway.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B. Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.