Ernest Hemingway 1918-1961

Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 and died July 2, 1961. He was an American author and journalist.

During World War 1 Hemingway was an ambulance driver and in 1918 he got seriously wounded. His experiences in the war inspired him to write the novel “A Farewell to Arms”. Hemingway got married in 1922 with Hadley Richardson and they moved to Paris. In Paris he started working as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers. “The sun also rises” was Hemingway’s first published novel and it was published in 1926. In 1937-1938 Hemingway worked as a correspondent in Spain during the civil war. He expressed his disguise for the war through his novel “For whom the bell tolls”. Hemingway received a Nobel price in literature in 1954.

Hemingway was traveling a lot and during a flight the plane crashed down. He got injuries and the pain made him start drinking alcohol. The doctors told him, that if he kept drinking he would hurt himself further. Hemingway got a liver disease, and it affected his work. So for the first time he was unable to organize his writing. In 1961 Hemingway shot himself with his favorite shotgun.