had his share of problems and successes and made a deep impact in our literature. Hemingway

was an important literary figure and writer, whose childhood experiences and significant events in

his adult years are reflected in his works in a variety of ways.

Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899. He grew up near Chicago, in Oak Park,

Illinois, in a well off, middle-class family. He had four siblings named Marcelline, Ursula,

Madelaine, and Leicester. The young Ernest was energetic, lively, imaginative, and happy. He

had a problem, earlier on, with lying (Richards 16). While he was still young, his father

introduced him to the world of nature. They would go fishing together, which was an activity

that Ernest would enjoy for the rest of his life. He soon became an extremely good fisherman,

and the family photo album was filled with many of his fishing pictures (19). Some of his most

memorable times of his youth were spent in the family's summer cottage at Walloon Lake,

Mrs. Hemingway insisted that each of her children play an instrument. Ernest was to learn

Also in 1929, he released Farewell to Arms which gave him near universal acclaim. A war story

was starting to become a recognized writer (130).

Killers was set in a small Chicago diner that Hemingway remembered from when he was younger.

In the 1930's, Ernest got the reputation as "fighting Hemingway." He used his knowledge

was not accepted because of an eye injury that he got during one of his boxing fights (Cournos

the twentieth century" (Ernest 100). When the Spanish Civil War started, Ernest made trips back

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