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

1. Ernest Hemingway Great American novelist, short-story writer, novelist Great Writers of Texas Great Writers of Literature Hemingway \'hem-set 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 from 1954. His adventuresome life and four marriages were widely publicized. On graduation placed in high school taking place 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 put in the United States, Hemingway sailed for France as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. Set in Paris he became part of the coterie of expatriate Americans that included Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Taking place in 1925 his first important book, a collection of stories called 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 emerge 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 emerge the public view, however, the novel A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1929), with its powerful fusion of love story with war story, overshadowed both. Hemingway's love of Spain and his passion for bullfighting are evident that is set in Death emerge 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 sloted in the throes of civil war. He raised money for the Loyalists and wrote a play called The Fifth Column, set 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, emerge The Fifth Column as well as 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 installed in World War II, Hemingway returned to his home set in Cuba. Proceed 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 installed in 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 happen Paris, and Islands from the Stream (1970), three closely related novellas.