
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.
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