Another Ernest Hemingway
A young man by the name of Ernest Hemingway was born in
1898 and
grew up in a suburb of Chicago Illinois. (Jones 416) His
father
was a doctor. As a boy, he and his father spent time
together
hunting and fishing in Michigan. (Brown 571) Hemingway
wrote for
his school newspaper. (Jones 416) During his youth
Hemingway also
played football and swam. (Smith 34)
After graduating from high school, Hemingway was hired
with the
Kansas City Star newspaper. (Jones 416) While writing for
the
Kansas City Star, Hemingway began to develop his own
unique style
of writing. (Brown 571)
Later, Hemingway worked for the Red Cross as an
ambulance driver
during World War I. (Jones 416) Only a few days before he
would
turn twenty years old, Hemingway was wounded in the leg
and sent
back to the United States. (Smith 34)
In 1921, the Toronto Star sent Hemingway to Europe as a
journalist writer. While in Paris he published two books. The
Sun
Also Rises was published in 1926 and was his first novel
that
made him a well-known writer. Hemingway loved to write
about his
adventurous activities. During the Spanish Civil War in the
1930's, Hemingway wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Many
people
thought this was one of his best novels. Hemingway later
wrote a
novel about showing the need to accept life with honor. In
1952
he published this novel entitled The Old Man in the Sea.
(Jones
416) Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for this
novel.
(Brown...
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