Ernest Hemingway was a renowned novelist known for short novels like The Old Man and The Sea, a Farewell to Arms among others. He was born in 1899 in Illinois. He began his career in Kansas City in a newspaper office at the humble age of seventeen. He served in World War One as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. He has received several accolades such as the 1953 Pulitzer, and a Nobel Prize in 1954. He shot himself dead on July 2, 1961.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was raised by his parents, Clarence and Grace Hemingway in Chicago, but the family also spent a great deal of time in Northern Michigan. It was there that Hemingway learned to fish.
Hemingway worked on the school newspaper in his high school, writing primarily about sports. After graduation, Hemingway
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He returned to the USA and spent time in Northern Michigan before sailing to France as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star.
In Paris, he was advised and encouraged by several American writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound to write non-journalistic material.
In 1925, Hemingway took a trip to the famous Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain, that would later provide that basis of Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises. A pessimistic but sparkling book, it deals with a group of aimless expatriates in France and Spain. Soon after the publication of the book, Hemingway had an affair with a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer.
Soon Pauline became pregnant and the couple moved back to America. During this time, Hemingway completed his novel, “A Farewell to Arms” based on World War I. When he wasn’t writing, Hemingway spent much of his 1930s-chasing adventure: skiing, bullfighting, fishing and hunting that by then had become a part of his life and formed the background for much of his writing.
The result of Hemingway’s considerable experience of Spain in war and peace was the novel For Whom the Bell Trolls, which would eventually be nominated for the Pulitzer