Brilliance can be one word to describe Hemingway and all of his vivid books. This man has written many deep and intelligent works during his lifetime which many appreciate today. Many of these genius writings reflects his life. Some of which specific events that took place, molded him as a person and writer. These incidences such from his childhood or his time spent in the war were the foundation of his literature. Ernest Hemingway: a literary hero of this era.
Hemingway was born in the small town of Oak Park, Illinois to his parents, Dr. Clarence and Grace Hemingway. His father worked as a country physician and his mother, a religious musician. At an early age, Mrs. Hemingway encouraged little Ernest to take cello lessons in which he greatly excelled. In high school, Hemingway was the star athlete playing for the football team and boxing. When World War I rolled around, he bravely enrolled as a foot soldier and was rejected. This certainly did not stop him from participating in the war effort, he took a job as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. Many of the events during his service inspired some of his greatest works. …show more content…
After returning home from the war, he worked as a reporter for the Toronto Star. He married first wife, moved to France and worked for the international paper. His time in Paris also inspired the novel A Moveable Feast, which published posthumously in 1964. In 1927 Hemingway published a short story collection, Men Without Women. That same year he divorced Hadley Richardson and married Pauline Pfieffer, a writer for Vogue. Some of his major works include The Old Man and The Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises and To Have and Have Not. All of these majorly contributed to literature in
Hemingway was born in the small town of Oak Park, Illinois to his parents, Dr. Clarence and Grace Hemingway. His father worked as a country physician and his mother, a religious musician. At an early age, Mrs. Hemingway encouraged little Ernest to take cello lessons in which he greatly excelled. In high school, Hemingway was the star athlete playing for the football team and boxing. When World War I rolled around, he bravely enrolled as a foot soldier and was rejected. This certainly did not stop him from participating in the war effort, he took a job as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. Many of the events during his service inspired some of his greatest works. …show more content…
After returning home from the war, he worked as a reporter for the Toronto Star. He married first wife, moved to France and worked for the international paper. His time in Paris also inspired the novel A Moveable Feast, which published posthumously in 1964. In 1927 Hemingway published a short story collection, Men Without Women. That same year he divorced Hadley Richardson and married Pauline Pfieffer, a writer for Vogue. Some of his major works include The Old Man and The Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises and To Have and Have Not. All of these majorly contributed to literature in