Earnest Hemingway
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Earnest Hemingway
Earnest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park Illinois.
After graduating from high school, he got a job at a paper
called “Kansas City Star”. Hemingway continually tried to enter
the military, but his messed up eye, hindered this task.
Hemingway had managed to get a job driving an American Red Cross
ambulance.
During this expedition, he was injured and hospitalized. Hemingway had an crush for a particular nurse at that hospital, her name was Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway continually proposed to her, and she continually denied.
When Hemingway healed his injuries, he moved back to Michigan,
and had wanted to write again. When he married Hadley
Richardson and was working in France, as a foreign correspondent,
for the “Toronto Star”. In 1925, he wrote a book called “In Our
Time”, which was marketed in New York. The next year he published
a book called “The Sun Also Rises”, a novel where he had his
first success.
“The Sun Also Rises”, deals with a group of desultory
people in exile from France and Spain-members of the “lost
generation”, a phrase made famous by Hemingway himself.
In post-war years, Hemingway spent most of his time writing
books. But, when his first marriage failed, and had a son,
John, he had married Pauline Pfeiffer, who had his next 2
children. Based in Paris, he had traveled for skiing,
bullfighting, fishing, or hunting that by then had become what
most of his work was all about.
Hemingway, started writing short stories, among them was “Men
Without Women” in 1927, and “A Farewell to Arms” in 1929.
This story shows a love story within a war time setting. Many people believe that
Hemingway, did his writing at this period of his life. He once confessed “If I had not
been hunting and fishing, I would have probably been writing.”
Hemingways stories were based on adventure,
and different aspects of it. His love of Spain, and his love of
bullfighting, led him to write a book called “Death in the
Afternoon”. During the 1930s, Spain was in a civil war, still
having ties in Spain, Hemingway made 4 trips their. He raised
money, for a party called the “Loyalists”. He wrote a book about
it called “The Fifth Column”.
In this book, the narrator is the protagonist. From more experience in Spain, he
wrote a book called “Whom the Bell Tolls” in 1940. This book was the most