Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21,1899. He was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois.He worked as a reporter for a few months after he left high school. Before leaving for Italy to become an ambulance driver during World War 1, which became a novel "A Farewell to Arms" . He was seriously injured and returned home. He was married four times to wife Hadley Richardson, to whom he was married to when he published his first novel " The Sun Also Rises".

He then married Pauline Pfeiffer, and then divorced and wrote " For Whom The Bell Tolls". He then married Martha Gellhom but they weren't together for long befor he married Mary Welsh Hemingway after World War 2. After publishing "The Old Man and the Sea" in 1952, Hemingway wen on a safari in Africa where he was almost killed in a plane crash. The crash which he never really recovered from left him in pain and ill for the rest of his life. During that timed he was living in Cuba, and in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Idaho. He died on July 1,1961 from suicide.

Ernest Hemingway was known for his works of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, two non-fiction works, three more novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works that were published after his death. His public image was that of his distinctive writting style known as the "Iceberg Theory". He published alot of his work from the mid 20's and through the 50's. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

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