Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21,1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He went to Oak Park high school where he both played football and boxed. Because of permanent eye damage from boxing matches, Hemingway was rejected many times from service in World War 1. Hemingway also edited his high school newspaper and reported for the Kansas City Star. After graduating from high school in 1917, Hemingway finally was able to participate in World war One, as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. He was wounded seriously on July 8, 1918. Fighting on the Italian front inspired the plot of, A Farewell to Arms in 1929. Indeed, war itself is a major theme in Hemingway’s works (Bloom, novelists, 10).

Upon returning briefly to the United States after the World War one, Hemingway, as well as working for the Toronto Star, lived for a short time in Chicago. There, he met and married Hadley Richardson in 1921. The couple moved to Paris, where he served as foreign journalist for the Toronto Star. The Hemingways

In addition to personal experience with war and death, Hemingway’s widespread travel, hunting and other sports provided material for his novels. Bullfighting inspired Death in the Afternoon, published in 1932. In 1934, Hemingway went on safari in Africa, which gave him new themes and scenes for The Snows of Kaliamanjaro and The Green Hills of Africa, published in 1935. After his divorce from Pauline in 1940, Hemingway married Martha Gelhorn, who was also a writer (Resource Center).

In, Conclusion, Ernest Hemingway is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Even though he was only a high school graduated and he never attended a university, but he educated himself far beyond what he would have learned in the classroom. He published many short stories and novel of which most were made into films. Hemingway who enjoyed his life doing many activities was the sensitive, hard working professional writer.

In 1930s Hemingway wrote such major works as Death In The Afternoon (1932), a non-fiction account of Spanish bullfighting, The Green Hill Of Africa (1935), a story of a hunting safari in East Africa, and To Have and To Not Have (1937), which was made into film by Howard Hawks. To Whom The Bells Toll (1940) was Hemingway’s enormous best-selling novel set in the Spanish Civil War. Robert Jordan, an American volunteer is sent behind enemy lines to destroy a crucial bridge (Bloom, Short stories, 86).

Ernest Hemingway has written a variety of novels, short-story and essays. Hemingway's fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives of soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighter who meet the pain and difficulty of their survival with courage.

Hemingway's first books, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) and In Our Time (1924), were publish

Some topics in this essay:
Ernest Hemingway, Michael Reynolds, Storyteller’s Legacy, River Trees, Farwell Arms, Resource Center, Death Afternoon, Oak Park, VS Pritchett, City Star, ernest hemingway, world war, michael reynolds, bloom novelists, short stories, resource center, writers twentieth century, toronto star, war hemingway, farewell arms, ambulance driver, world war hemingway,