Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, Milan 1918

Ernest Hemingway was born in oak park, Illinois, in 1899, and began his writing career with The Kansas City Star in 1917. during the first world war he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front but was invalided home, having being seriously wounded while serving with the red cross.

With the appearance of the sun also rises IN 1926, Hemingway became not only the voice of the “lost generation” but the preeminent writer of his time. this was followed by men without women in 1927, when Hemingway returned to united states, and his novel of Italian front, a farewell to arms. Hemingway settled in key west and later in Cuba, but he traveled widely_ to Spain, Italy, and Africa and wrote his experiences in death in the afternoon(1932), his classic treatise on bullfighting, and green hills of Africa(1935), an account of big-game hunting in Africa. later he reported on the Spanish civil war, which became the backgroung for his brilliant war novel, for whom the bell tolls(1940). Hemingway’s most popular work, the old man and the sea(1952), was awarded the pulitzer prize in 1953, and in 1954 Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in literature ”for his powerful, style forming mastery of the art narration.

one of the most influences on the development of the short story and novel in American fiction, Hemingway has seized the imagination of the American public like no other 20th century author. He died by suicide, in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961. his other works include The Torrents  of Spring, winner take nothing, to have and have not, the fifth column and the first forty-nine stories, across the river and into the sea, a movable feast, island in the stream, the dangerous summer, the garden of eden.

nobel prize acceptance speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoI9OgVxDNE