Gregory Sondo
Comp 2
Sara Landaverde
4/23/15
Ernest Hemingway
When the list of American authors of the 20th century is made, Ernest Hemingway is readily on top of it. He is highly respected for the numerous works he has done especially in the areas of novels, poetry and short stories. Hemingway was an author who was well known for reflecting his personal experiences on his literary works in terms of subject masters, and characters. His style of writing is simple because he utilized, in his works, meanings. A better understanding of Hemingway will include learning about his childhood, education background, job history, family life, and influences.
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1889 in Oak, Illinois. He was the first son and the second child born to Clarence Edmonds “Doctor Ed” Hemingway, a country doctor. His mother was Grace Hall Hemingway. The young Ernest followed after his father’s hobbies of fishing, hunting and camping out in the woods and lakes of Northern Michigan. “He was an inveterate maker who
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(web.b.ebscohost.com/social concern) In the 1930‘s however, he diverted most of his writings to express concern for social problems. His novel “To have and Have Not” (1937) and his play “The Fifth Column” published in the “Fifth Column” and the “First Forty-nine –stories (1938) strongly condemned economic and political injustices. Two of his best short stories, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” were part of his later work. In the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1990), dealing with the Spanish civil war, he showed that the loss of liberty anywhere in the world is a warning that liberty is endangered all over the world. The ten years that followed, Hemingway’s literary works were “Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time” (1942), which he personally edited and the novel “Across the River and into the Trees” (1950).