Ernest Hemingway

Ersnest Hemingway is one of the great 20-th century American writers. His Incredible career, and the legend which developed around his impressive personaliy, was that of a man of action , a devil-may-care adveturer, brave was correspondent , an amateur boxes, a big-game hunter and deep-sea fisherman, the victim of three car accidents and two plane crashes, a man of four wives and many loves,but above all a brilliant writer of stories and novels.

Hemingway was born 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a doctor who initiated the boy into the outdoor life of hunting, camping and fishing.  In high school Hemingway played fooball and wrote for the school newspaper.

In 1917, when the United States entered the First world War, Hemingway left home and schooling to become a young reporter for the Kansas City Star.

Hemingway actively supported the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and wrote another successful novel of war, love and death. It was for whom te Bell Tolls.

During the Second World War Hemingway was a war cerrespondent first in China and then in Europe. He fought in France, and helped to liberate Paris.

In his later years Hemingway lived mostly in Cuba where his passion for deep-sea fishing provided the background for the Old Man and the Sea. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

Hemingway is famous for his lean style, which has been widely imitated but never matched. His heroes show courage in the face of danger, a characteristic which Hemingway anaired greatly and which he prided himself on possesing . Unwilling to live with the inevitable physical aging, Hemingway committed suicide, as his father had done before him under similar circumstances.