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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Ernest Hemingway, one of the most prominent American
writers of the 20th century, was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899.
Hemingway, who is well-known for his distinctive writing style that is defined
by simplicity and clarity, frequently addressed themes of masculinity, war, and
the human condition in his works.
Ernest's mother, a highly religious and pious woman
with an understanding of music, had hoped that her son would take an interest
in music. she herself had once hoped for an operatic career, but
during her first recital at Carnegie Hall, the lights were so intense for her
defective eyes that she gave up performing.In high school, Ernest tried his
hand at playing the cello, but it was obvious right away that he was not a
musician. Rather, he was a great fan of the great outdoors, just like his
father.
Ernest's father gave him an all-day fishing trip for
his fourth birthday. Ernest started fishing when he was three years old. His
grandfather got him a 20-gauge single-barrel shotgun for his twelfth birthday.
He was one of the well-known group of foreign writers living in Paris when he
soon set off on a life of travel, skiing, fishing, and hunting, activities
which would serve as inspiration for his short stories featuring Hemingway's
youthful fictitious character, Nick Adams.
His career as a journalist started after graduation.
During World War I, he received injuries while driving an ambulance. The novel
The Sun Also Rises (1926) came after his story collection In Our Time (1925). A
Farewell to Arms (1929) and To Have and Have Not (1937) are examples of later
novels.
His long-standing passion for Spain, which included a
fascination with bullfighting, brought him to Spain during the Spanish Civil
War, where he worked as a correspondent and wrote the novel For Whom the Bell
Tolls (1940). Winner Take Nothing (1933), The Fifth Column (1938), and Men
Without Women (1927) are some such collections of short stories. He was born
and raised in Cuba, where his novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952, Pulitzer
Prize) is set. He moved there around 1940.
In 1954, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Hemingway's unhappy years continued into the following few years, with attacks
of high blood pressure and clinical depression in 1961. During his two lengthy
stays at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he was administered shock
therapy; However, the majority of the recommended treatments for his depression
proved to be unsuccessful.
Hemingway shot himself in the head and passed away at
home on July 2, 1961. There seem to have been two Hemingways at all times. The
bearded, grin-wearing "Papa" from the news photos was the adventurer;
the other was the skillful, sensitive writer Hemingway, who carefully wrote,
revised, and corrected his pieces.
Hemingway's term for his short stories,
"gems," describes each of the collected short stories covered in this
volume as a polished, completed work. There is no need for additional words,
and no word is unnecessary. Literary commentators rank Hemingway as one of the
greatest authors of short stories in history, ranking him alongside such
well-known authors as Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner.
HIS FAMOUS WORKS :
Big
Two-Hearted River (1925)
The
Sun Also Rises (1926)
A
Farewell to Arms (1929)
For
Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
The
Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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