Ernst Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a physician, and he was the second of six children. Their home was in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb. In 1917, Hemingway began working as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. The following year, he served as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was seriously injured but decorated for his efforts. He moved back to America in 1919 and married in 1921. He covered the GrecoTurkish War in 1922 before leaving journalism to pursue a career in literature. He settled in Paris, where he rekindled old ties with fellow American expats such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their praise and criticism would help shape his style. Hemingway's first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time, but it was the satirical novel The Torrents of Spring that made him more famous. His three subsequent books, Fiesta, Men Without Women, and A Farewell to Arms, solidified his international fame. He was passionate about bullfighting, big-game hunting, and deep-sea fishing, and his writing reflected it. He travelled to Spain during the Civil War and wrote about his experiences in the best-selling book For Whom the Bell Tolls.