Ernest Heminway was born in Oak Park, Illinois to Clarence E. Hemingway and Grace Hemingway. His father was a physician and his mother was a music teacher. His dad would often take him along on his country calls, and gave him a fishing pole at the age of two and a gun at the age of ten. This explains his love for the outdoors. His mother would always encourage his imaginative talents. During the summers of his childhood he lived in Petoskey in northern Michigan. He went to school in the Oak Park public schools, and graduated in 1917.

Soon after he graduated from high school, he got a job as a cub reporter on the Kansas City Star for six months. He could not join the army during World War I because of bad eyesight, so he volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. He served in Italy transporting wounded soldiers. In July 1918 he was badly injured and spent the rest of the year in Milan, where he fell in love with an American nurse. This gave him material for his novel A Farewell to Arms.

In early 1919 he returned to the United States and finished getting better at the family home in Michigan. It w

During World War II Hemingway worked as a journalist again. His relationship with his wife worsened, and he soon married another journalist, Mary Welsh. His next novel, Across the River and Into the Trees, did not have as much success as some of his previous work, however his following novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was a winner. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and was the cause of him winning the Nobel Prize for literature. He then made several trips to Spain to gather material for a book which he worked on in a house he bought in Ketchum, Idaho.

In 1937 he went to Spain, where he met journalist Martha Gellgorn, whom he later married. Hemingway's involvement in the civil war going on in Spain was the topic of many stories he wrote. He wrote a novel called For Whom the Bell Tolls in a house near Havana, where he would live for most of the rest of his life.

Soon after he graduated from high school, he got a job as a cub reporter on the Kansas City Star for six months. He could not join the army during World War I because of bad eyesight, so he volunteered as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. He served in Italy transporting wounded soldiers. In July 1918 he was badly injured and spent the rest of the year in Milan, where he fell in love with an American nurse. This gave him material for his novel A Farewell to Arms.

In early 1919 he returned to the United States and finished getting better at the family home in Michigan. It was then that he began writing seriously. A year later he went to Canada as a writer for the Toronto Star. Then he moved to Chicago where he edited a monthly magazine and wrote stories and poems in his spare time. There he met Sherwood Anderson, who provided him with letters of introduction to Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. In September Hemingway and his wife, Elizabeth H. Richardson went to France where he was a foreign correspondent for the Star.

After a while of having health problems, Hemingway was hospitalized and given electric shock therapy. This made writing impossible and living unendurable, and he committed suicide with a shotgun in July 1961 (1183). After his sudden death, a few more of his works were published.Javier Soto

During World War II Hemingway worked as a journalist again. His relationship with his wife worsened, and he soon married another journalist, Mary Welsh. His next novel, Across

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