Biographies: Ernest Hemingway - Writer

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One of the most important American novelists and story writers, born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. His father was a doctor who was fond of hunting and natural history, and a puritan mother with an interest in music. At an early age in 1909, his father bought him a hunting rifle, which later became his life companion until it killed him in 1961. Hemingway worked as a journalist for the “Kansas Star” newspaper and then volunteered for the Italian Red Cross in 1918, at the end of World War I. There, he was seriously wounded, which kept him in hospital for months, and underwent many surgeries. In 1921, he worked as a reporter for the "Toronto Star" newspaper in Chicago. In 1923, he published his first collection of stories, "Three Stories and Ten Poems." It was an unparalleled success. This success encouraged him to publish a collection of stories in 1927, "Men Without Women". Upon his return in 1923 to Florida, where his family was, his father committed suicide by firing a shot in the head. In 1929, he returned with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, to Europe, where he published one of his most important works, "A Farewell to Arms". Between 1936 and 1938, he worked as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War, and this task allowed him to express his strong hostility to the rising fascism at the time, and even entered the war against the Nazis and fascists. His third wife, Martha Gellhorn also entered with him as a reporter on the Russian-Chinese front in 1940. This year was a milestone in Hemingway's literature, as he published "For Whom the Bell Tolls" to achieve superb success and it sold more than one million copies in the first year of its publication. He committed suicide at the age of 61, on 2 July, 1961 in Idaho.

23 May 2022
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