Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
An American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature.
His favorite spots to write:
Intersting Facts:
In World War I he was an ambulace driver
In World War II he was a journalist
In the Spanish Civil War he was a journalist
Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. "He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature," according to Wikipedia.
Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. He enlisted as an ambulance driver in World War I, but in 1918, after being seriously wounded, he returned home. Hemingway's first wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).
In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent and published his debut novel The Sun Also Rises in 1926.
He based For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) on his experience in the Spanish Civil War where he had been a journalist.
Hemingway lived in London during World War II and was present with the troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and also at the liberation of Paris.
In the 1930s, Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and in the 1940s and 1950s, in Cuba.
Nearly dying in two consecutive plane crashes in 1954, left him in pain for the rest of his life. He bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho in 1959, and in mid-1961, he ended his own life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
I didn't know about the plane crashes and his suicide. How sad. I love the movies A Farewell to Arms and To Whom the Bell Tolls, such great classics.