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Ernest Hemingway Biography
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Biography: Life of Ernest Hemingway
Born 1899, Died 1961
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway began writing while still in high school. After graduating from high school in 1917, he worked for a time as a reporter on the Kansas City Star. Hemingway volunteered as an ambulance driver in Italy in World War I. In 1918 he received a severe wound to his leg.
After the war, Hemingway settled in Paris, France where he began his writing. In Paris, he met F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. While working on his fiction, he wrote for the Toronto Star. He toured Europe and acted as a war correspondent. While in Spain, he became interested in bullfighting.
Hemingway’s first books did not do well. His first serious novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926. This work brought him great success as a novelist.
In 1927 Ernest Hemingway returned to the United States and settled in Key West, Florida. Here he wrote A Farewell to Arms, the story of two lovers on the Italian front during World War I. This novel, which was published in 1929, brought Hemingway critical and economic success.
His novel, To Have and Have Not, was published in 1937. This same year Hemingway went to Spain where he observed the Spanish Civil War at firsthand. From this experience he wrote For Whom the Bells Toll, which was published in 1940.
In 1940 Ernest Hemingway bought a house outside of Havana, Cuba. Hemingway, who had a passion for deep sea fishing, monitored the activities of Nazi submarines in local waters during World War II. In 1944 he obtained a position as a correspondent for Collier’s. In this position Hemingway observed the landing at Normandy on D-Day.
Years of heaving drinking began to take a physical toll on Hemingway by the late 1940s. He began to hear voices, was overweight and had high blood pressure. He also showed signs of cirrhosis of the liver.
Across the River and Into the Trees, published in 1950, was not well received. His reputation was restored with publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for this work. Ernest Hemingway spent much of his time in Cuba until Fidel Castro came into power in 1959. He returned to the United States when living under Castro’s rule became difficult.
Ernest Hemingway was treated for depression in 1960. On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
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