Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist known for his understated writing style that influenced 20th century fiction. He lived an adventurous life and produced much of his notable work between the 1920s and 1950s, including A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway spent time in Paris as part of the expatriate community in the 1920s, recounting his experiences in A Moveable Feast, which was published posthumously in 1964.

1. Ernest Miller Hemingway
(July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
Was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a
strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public
image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between
the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He
published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three
novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published
posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few
months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the
World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned
home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In
1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to
Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent, and fell under the influence of the
modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community.
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.
After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer.
They divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War where he had been a
journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became
his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during
World War II. He was present at the Normandy Landings and the liberation of Paris.
Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on
safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left
him in pain or ill health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent
residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he
moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of
1961.

2. A Moveable Feast
Is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 –
July 2, 1961) about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate
circle of writers in the 1920s. The book describes Hemingway's
apprenticeship as a young writer in Europe (especially in Paris) during the
1920s with his first wife, Hadley. Some of the later prominent people who
are featured in his memoirs include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Hilaire Belloc, Pascin, John Dos Passos,
Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein.
The book was not published during Hemingway's life, but edited from his
manuscripts and notes by his widow and fourth wife, Mary Hemingway. It
was published in 1964, three years after Hemingway's death. An edition
revised by his grandson Seán Hemingway was published in 2009.
The memoir consists of Hemingway's personal accounts, observations,
and stories of his experience in 1920s Paris. He provides specific addresses
of cafes, bars, hotels, and apartments, some of which can be found in
modern-day Paris. The title was suggested by Hemingway's friend A.E.
Hotchner, author of the biography, Papa Hemingway. He remembered
they had a conversation about the city during Hotchner's first visits there:
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then
wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a
moveable feast."