Ernest Hemingway was a Nobel Prize winner American writer who touched the pinnacle of fame with his novel "The Old Man and the Sea", which catapulted him to international fame. During his writing career, he published seven novels, six collections of short stories and two non-fiction, which greatly influenced subsequent generations of writers
Childhood
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a doctor, and his mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician.
He had an interesting childhood, his father taught him to hunt, fish and camp in the forests and lakes of Northern Michigan. Mother insisted that he receive music lessons, which greatly annoyed his son.
From 1913 to 1917, he received secondary education at a school where he excelled in English and actively participated in the creation of the school newspaper Trapeze and Tabula. He was also very passionate about sports and participated in competitions in boxing, athletics, water floor and football.
Career
After graduating from high school, he got a job as a reporter at Kansas City Star. He worked there for only six months, but learned some valuable lessons that would help him develop his own unique writing style.
When the First World War began, he became the ambulance driver of the American Red Cross. He was seriously injured while serving on the Austro-Italian front and was awarded the Italian silver medal of courage.
He returned home in 1919 and began working as a full-time writer and foreign correspondent for Toronto Star Weekly. He continued to write stories for publication even after moving to Chicago in September 1920.
In 1921, Hemingway was accepted as a foreign correspondent for Toronto Star and moved to Paris. It was in Paris that he began a full-fledged career as a writer and wrote 88 stories in 20 months! He covered the Greek-Turkish war and wrote travel guides, and in 1923 published his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems.
In 1929, his novel Goodbye Weapons was published. The book became very popular, securing the reputation of a writer of fascinating fiction.
He continued to write throughout the 1930s, with such novels as Death in the Afternoon (1932), The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (1935), and Having and Not Having (1937). He also loved travel and adventure, including big game hunting in Africa, bullfighting in Spain, and deep sea fishing in Florida.
The 1940s were very eventful for him. He began the decade with the publication of one of his most famous works, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in 1940.
In 1951, he published the novel The Old Man and the Sea, which played an important role in awarding him the Nobel Prize in literature.
Personal life
Ernest Hemingway has been married four times. His first wife was Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, whom he married in 1921. The couple had a baby. During this marriage, Hemingway began an affair with Pauline Pfeiffer. When his wife found out about this, she divorced him.
He married Pauline Pfeiffer in 1927 shortly after the divorce. From this marriage he had two sons. This marriage ended just like the first, Hemingway got a mistress Martha Gellhorn, which led to his divorce from Pauline in 1940.
Soon after the second divorce, he tied the knot with Martha Gellhorn. The successful journalist was outraged that she was called the wife of Hemingway. After some time, she began an affair with the American paratrooper, Major General James M. Gavin, and divorced Hemingway in 1945.
His fourth and last marriage was with Mary Welch in 1946. The couple remained together until the death of Hemingway.
The last years of Ernest Hemingway's life were marked by poor health and depression. He was treated for depression, hypertension, and liver disease. He was increasingly visited by suicidal thoughts and in the end he shot himself in the morning on July 2, 1961.
Contribution to World Literature
His novel, Farewell to Arms, written during the Italian campaign of the First World War, is considered one of his first major successes in the field of writing. The book, the plot of which revolves around a love affair between an emigrant American Henry and Katherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, became his first bestseller.
"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is another of his most famous works. The novel tells the story of a young American who fell into the republican partisan detachment during the Spanish Civil War. Death is the main theme of the novel.
His novel "The Old Man and the Sea" was the last major work that was written by Hemingway and published during his lifetime. It is also one of his most famous works. The plot revolves around an aging fisherman who manages to catch a huge fish.
