Author Abstract

Author Abstract

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, July 21, 1899. Hemingway grew up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood, in the house his grandfather built. He referred to the neighborhood as a town of "wide lawns and narrow minds." Ernest was the second of six children. His parents were strict Congregationalists whom Hemingway began growing bitter to in his early years. He began working on literature in high school, writing columns for the school paper and poems and articles for the school magazine.

After he graduated in 1917 he decided to disobey his parents and not go to college, and instead he began working for the Kansas City Star, thanks to his Uncle Tyler who was a good friend with the paper's editor. He would cover police and hospital reports while writing feature articles. In all of his journalism work, people began to notice his stories of violence, despair, and emotional unrest. After just a short year of working for the paper, Hemingway went to serve in World War I as a Red Cross ambulance driver. He was wounded on July 8, 1918, by shrapnel in both off his legs. While in the Italian Hospital he fell in love with his American nurse, who later left him for an older man. Upon returning briefly to the United States after the First World War, Hemingway worked for the Toronto Star and lived for a short time in Chicago. There, he met Sherwood Anderson and married Hadley Richardson in 1921.

Hemingway's first publication was in 1923 and was entitled Three Stories and Ten Poems. In 1924 he wrote a novel about his war and journalist experiences called In Our Time. After the success for Farewell to Arms, he was recognized as a major force in literature. Over the next few decade Hemingway wrote many more short stories and editorials, but people thought that he was slipping in his work. In 1960 he suffered a mental breakdown and admitted himself to the Mayo