Ernest Hemingway Accomplishments

Ernest Hemingway: America’s Greatest Prose Writer Ernest Hemingway is an icon in American literature. Ernest Hemingway won The Noble Peace Prize in Literature in 1954 “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style” (Noble Media). He wrote ten novels, four non-fiction books and numerous short story collections. Over the course of his life he has written about his experiences and numerous failed love affairs entertaining his audiences with masterful prose. Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He had five siblings. His father, Clarence was a physician and took a “young Hemingway” (Gradesaver) on hunting and

Ernest once said, "On the Star you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time" (Bio). While working as a journalist Ernest tried to enlist in the military but an eye injury from boxing denied him the opportunity until 1918 when Ernest was able to serve in the Italian Army during World War 1 as an ambulance

While recovering in a hospital in Milan, Italy Ernest started a relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky. This relationship inspired his critically acclaimed novel A Farewell To Arms. Still injured, Ernest returned home to Illinois and after a year of doing nothing but speaking engagements and reading books, he was offered a position as tutor to the son of Ralph Connable an executive for Woolworth’s department star. Ralph introduced Ernest to the editor of the Toronto Star Weekly where Ernest was able to work from Chicago. While Ernest worked out of Chicago he meet his first wife, Hadley Richardson, and accepted the opportunity to become the Toronto Daily Star European correspondent in Paris,