... and ther Stories
Series: Easy Readers
ERNEST HEMINGWAY (1899 - 1961)íbr> was born in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois in 1899. In 1917 he joined the Kansas City 'Star' as a reporter. The following year he volunteered to work as an ambulance driver and infantryman on the Italian front where he was badly wounded. He was twice decorated for his services. In 1922 he reported on the Greco-Turkish war. Two years later he settled in Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto 'Star' and it was there he began his serious writing career, supported by his friends Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson and Ezra Pound. He worked as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Hemingway's first two published works were "Three Stories and Ten Poems" and "In Our Time". "Fiesta", "Men Without Women" and "A Farewell to Arms" (1929) firmly secured his international reputation. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing, and his writing reflected this. He described his experiences in the Spanish Civil War in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940). He gave an account of his years in Paris in "A Movable Feast". Other important works are: "The Sun Also Rises" (1926); "Death in the Afternoon" (1932); "Green Hills of Africa" (1935); "To Have and Have Not" (1937); "Across the River and Into the Trees" (1950) and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952). "Islands in the Stream" was published after his death (1971).br> Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He died in Idaho in 1961.