Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was the second of six children four sisters and one brother. He referred to his home town as a place with “wide lawns and narrow minds.” His father taught him how to fish and hunt, which exposed him to the serenity of nature. His mother taught him the finer points of music which helped him shared in his first wife Hadley’s interest in the piano. In High School he enjoyed working on the newspaper called the Trapeze. His first job was a reporter for the Kansas City Star. When he turned eighteen he enlisted for the army and was turned down due to poor eyesight in his left eye, but he volunteered to be a Red Cross ambulance driver. His first day in Milan a munitions factory exploded and he hade to carry the remains to a makeshift morgue. A few weeks later in Schio he was hit with shrapnel from an Austrian mortar. He received the Italian Silver Medal for Valor for “...generous assistance to the Italian soldier more seriously wounded by the same explosion...” During his hospitalization in Milan he hade an affair with his nurse Agnes von Kurowsky. A year after returning from Italy he met Hadley Richardson while staying with a friend. Soon after in Se
ptember 1921 they got married and in November Hemingway accepted a job for the Toronto Daily Star as its European corespondent. They moved to Paris on December 22, 1921. The first two years in Paris were extensive for Hemingway as a journalist, covering the Geneva Conference in April of 1922, The Greco-Turkish War in October, The Luassane Conference in November and the post war convention in the Ruhr Valley in early 1923. While in Paris he made new friends such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, Max Eastman, Lincoln Steffens and Wyndahm Lewis. His wife Hadley became pregnant so they moved to Toronto until John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway was born October 10, 1923 and by January 1924 they moved back to Paris. Ezra Pound in recommending Hemingway to Ford Maddox said “...He’s an experienced journalist. He writes very good verse and he’s the finest prose stylist in the world.” Ford let Hemingway edit his fledgling magazine the Transatlantic Review. The first version of in our time was published by William Bird in 1924 it contained only the vignettes found as interchapters in the American version published by Boni & Liveright in 1925 which also contained ten short stories as well. In 1926 he came out with The Sun Also Rises. In 1927 came Men without Women and he divorced his first wife Hadley. He married Pauline Pfeiffer later that year and in 1928 they moved to Key West, Florida. Hemingway’s reaction to Key West was “It’s the best place I have ever been anytime, anywhere, flowers, tamarind trees, coconut palms...Got tight last night on absinthe
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