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1. Bio of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was founded on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, and is also the
writer of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" and "The Old Man and the Sea." His simple writing and
use of understatement made him a popular American literary figure. Hemingway, who wrote
about themes like animal cruelty and conflict, was also known for his own tough, painful
image. Hemingway, the second of six children born to Clarence Hemingway, a doctor, and
Grace Hall Hemingway, a pianist, learned to hunt animals as a kid, activities that he would
pursue throughout his life. He career as a reporter for the Kansas City Star in Missouri after
graduating from Oak Park and River Forest High School in 1917. The next year, he was
injured by mortar fire while volunteering as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy
during World War I and spent months recovering.
“The Old Man and the Sea,” a novella about an old Island fisherman that was a metaphor
relating to the writer's personal efforts to retain his craft in the face of celebrity and attention,
was Hemingway's final important work to be published during his lifetime. Hemingway had
become a minor celebrity, with his four marriages and daring adventures in big-game hunting
and fishing making headlines. Despite his celebrity, he had not published a major literary
work in the decade leading up to the publication of "The Old Man and the Sea." In 1953, The
novel won the Pulitzer Prize, as well as Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literary works
in 1954.