Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois.
Clarence and Grace Hemingway raised their son in this conservative suburb
of Chicago, but the family also spent a great deal of time in northern
Michigan, where they had a cabin.
Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He
started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City named The
Kansas City Star at the age of seventeen. He published seven novels, six
short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Additional works, including
three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were
published after his death.
After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer
ambulance unit in the Italian army. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and
returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A
Farewell to Arms (1929). After his return to the United States, he became a
reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to
Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.
In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple
moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under
the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s expatriate
community of what Gertrude Stein would famously call "The Lost
Generation". He published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926. After
his divorce in 1927 from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline
Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War where he
had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1940). Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They separated when
he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II.
Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man
and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and
lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. Shortly after
that Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two
successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his
remaining life.
Hemingway also wrote To have and have not, and The Nick Adams stories
which includes The Battler.

He was a writer that used common, everyday phrases so everybody could

understand him.
Hemingway committed suicide in the summer of 1961.