Biography, photos and story by Ernest Miller Hemigway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway's fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. 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.

Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After leaving high school he worked for a few months as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War I, which became the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. He was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives, and the couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. During his time there he met and was influenced bymodernist writers and artists of the 1920s expatriate community known as the "Lost Generation". His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was written in 1924.

After divorcing Hadley Richardson in 1927 Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced following Hemingway's return from covering the Spanish Civil War, after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940, but he left her for Mary Welsh Hemingway after World War II, during which he was present at D-Day and the liberation of Paris.

Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952 Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cubaduring the 1930s and '40s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he 

Ernest Hemigway Is writing a book

Ernest Hemigway getting ready to hunt

Ernest Hemigway shot a Buffalo

Ernest Hemigway celebretingh their hunt





Ernest Hemigway wrote a book about his hunt

Hemingway was part of the community of expatriate writers in Paris, known as the "lost generation", a name coined and popularized by Gertrude Stein. Taking a turbulent life, Hemingway was married four times and several romantic relationships. In 1952 he published "The Old Man and the Sea" which won the Pulitzer Prize (1953), considered his masterpiece. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 [1].The life and work of Hemingway has an intense relationship with Spain, where he lived for four years. A brief passage, but remarkable for an American writer who has established an emotional and ideological relationship with the Spaniards. In Pamplona, the mid-twentieth century, fascinated by bullfighting, about to become an amateur bullfighter, that experience carries for two books: The Sun Also Rises (1926) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). By covering the Civil War (1937) - as a journalist from the North American Newspaper Alliance, did not hesitate to befriend the Republican forces against fascism. [1]Still very young, decided to go to Europe for the first time, when the Great War haunted the world (1918). Hemingway had finished high school in Oak Park and worked as a journalist in the Kansas City Star. He tried to enlist but was turned down for having a vision problem. Decided to go to war, won a place in an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. In Italy, fell in love with nurse Agnes Von Kurowsky, his inspiration in creating the heroine of A Farewell to Arms (1929) - the English Catherine Barkley. Hit by a bomb, he returned to Oak Park that after what he saw in Italy, became too monotonous.