... term embraces Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane, among others. I found Ernest Hemingway writing fascinating. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Ill., he began work as a journalist after high school. He was wounded while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. He ... later became part of a famous group of expatriate writers in Paris, and soon embarked on a life of travel, skiing, fishing, and hunting that would be reflected in his work ... collection, In Our Time, 1925 was followed by the novel The Sun Also Rises...

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• Grade Level: High School

... fashioned and very religious. Ernest was quite the explorer and when he couldn't go out, he escaped to his room and read books. As a student he was a perfectionist about his grammar and was very excited to study English. He attended Oak Park High School where he joined the school newspaper and was part ... of a variety of extra-curricular activities. However, it seemed the principle did not approve of Ernest's writing and ... collection of short stories called Men Without Women. In 1929 he wrote another novel entitled A Farewell to Arms. He continued to write short story collections a...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School