Ernest Hemingway Great American writer, short-story writer, novelist

1. Ernest Hemingway Great American novelist, short-story writer, novelist Great Writers of Texas Great Writers of Literature Hemingway \'hem-installed in-,wa\, Ernest (Miller) (b. July 21,1899, Oak Park, 111., U.S.—d. July 2,1961, Ketchum, Idaho) American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature beginning in 1954. His adventuresome life and four marriages were widely publicized. On graduation installed in high school set in 1917, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. During World War I he served as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. On July 8,1918, he was injured on the Austro-Italian front and was decorated for heroism. After recuperating mounted in the United States, Hemingway sailed for France as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. Happen Paris he became part of the coterie of expatriate Americans that included Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Occur 1925 his first important book, a collection of stories called Taking place in Our Time, was published. The following year he published THE SUN ALSO RISES, the novel with which he scored his first solid success. Based pictured in Paris, he traveled widely for the skiing, bullfighting, fishing, and hunting that by then formed the background for much of his writing. His position as a master of short fiction was advanced by Men Without Women (1927), which included the story HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS, and was confirmed by Winner Take Nothing (1933), which included A CLEAN, WELL-LIGHTED PLACE. At least installed in the public view, however, the novel A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1929), with its superior fusion of love story with war story, overshadowed both. Hemingway's love of Spain and his passion for bullfighting are evident from Death that is set in the Afternoon (1932), a study of a spectacle he saw more as tragic ceremony than as sport. Similarly, an African safari provided the subject for Green Hills of Africa (1935). His TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1937) reflected his growing concern with social problems. Acting again as a correspondent, Hemingway made four trips to Spain, then pictured in the throes of civil war. He raised money for the Loyalists and wrote a play called The Fifth Column, taking place in besieged Madrid, which is published with some of his best short stories, including THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER and THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO, occur The Fifth Column plus the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). The harvest of his considerable experience of Spain was the novel FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (1940), the best selling of all his books. After seeing action beginning in World War II, Hemingway returned to his home sloted in Cuba. In 1953, he received the Pulitzer Prize installed in fiction for the short novel THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1952). This book was as enthusiastically praised as his previous novel, Across the River and into the Trees (1950), had been damned. By 1960 Fidel Castro's revolution had driven Hemingway occured Cuba. He then moved to Ketchum, Idaho. Anxiety-ridden and depressed, he eventually took his own life, leaving behind many manuscripts. Two of his posthumously published books are A Moveable Feast (1964), the memoir of his apprentice days in Paris, and Islands that is set in the Stream (1970), three closely related novellas.