

                    Autobiography on Hemingway


                        Earnest Hemingway

     Earnest Miller Hemingway was borin in Oak Park Illinois.

After graduating from high school, he got a job at a paper

called "Kansas City Star". Hemingway continually tried to enter

the military, but his defective eye, hindered this task.

Hemingway had managed to get a job driving an American Red Cross

ambulance. During this expedition, he was injured and

hospitalized. Hemingway had an affinity for a particular nurse at

that hospital, her name was Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway

continually proposed to her, and she continually denied.

When Hemingway healed his injuries, he moved back to Michigan,

and had wanted to write again. Hemingway married Hadley

Richardson and was working in France, as a foreign corespondent,

for the "Toronto Star". In 1925, he wrote a book called "In Our

Time", which was marketed in New York. The next year he published

a book called "The Sun Also Rises", a novel where he had his

first success. The book deals with a group of desultory 

people in exile from France and Spain-members of the "lost

generation", a phrase made famous by Hemingway himself.

     In post-war years, Hemingway spent most of his time writing

books. But, when his first marriage failed, and produced a son,

John, he had married Pauline Pfeiffer, who had his next 2

children. Based in Paris, he had travelled for skiing,

bullfighting, fishing, or hunting that by then had become what

most of his work was all about. 

Hemingway, started writing short stories, among them was "Men

Without Women" in 1927, and "A Farewell to Arms" in 1929.

This story ("A Farewell to Arms"), shows a lovestory within a war

time setting. Many people believe that Hemingway, did his writing

at this period of his life. He once confessed "If I had not been

hunting and fishing, I would have probably been writing."

(Hemingway 283 (3)). Hemingway's stories were based on adventure,

and different aspects of it. His love of spain, and his love of

bullfighting, led him to write a book called "Death in the

Afternoon". During the 1930's, Spain was in a civil war, still

having ties in Spain, Hemingway made 4 trips their. He raised

money, for a party called the "Loyalists". He wrote a book about

it called "The Fifth Column". In this book, the narrator is the

protagonist. From more experience in spain, he wrote a book

called "Whom the Bell Tolls" in 1940. This book was the most

successful writing, based on sales of the book.

     All of Hemingway's life, has been fascinated by wars. For

example, in "A Farewell to Arms", he focussed on how war had no

meaning, and was futile. Following the war in Europe, Hemingway

returned to his home in Cuba, and his fourth marriage was with

Mary Welsh-a correspondent whom he had met in London and whom he 

would be married to for the last time. In 1953, Hemingway

recieved a Pulitzer prize for his book "The Old Man and the Sea".

As one critic put it "Hemingway was a cheerful, irascible, by

turns generous, and selfish, expansive and egocentric. Hemingway

was hedonistic and dedicated, in love with life and yet by his

own admission obsessed with death." (Hemingway 221 (2))

By 1960, Hemingway was driven out of Cuba (Because of Castro),

and moved to Finca, and then he moved to a house in Ketchum,

Idaho. Hemingway was suffering from severe depression, and

anxiety attacks. He had gone to the mayo clinic in

Massachusettes, to recieve electro-shock therapy, but 

it didn't work out for him at all. Later that same year,

Hemingway ended his life, with a shot gun.

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