Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He started his career as a writer for a newspaper when he was only 17 years old. Before the First World War, Hemingway went to Italy and joined an ambulance unit in their army. While at the front, he was wounded. Eventually healed, he returned to the United States where he became a reporter for the Canadian and American newspapers. It was for these papers that send him over seas to cover the Greek Revolution in Europe. Hemingways first important work was The Sun Also Rises, which he wrote in 1926. Following that was A Farewell to Arms in 1929. This story was about an American amublance officer's dillisuons throught the war. For Whom the Bell Tolls was published in 1940, and then his greatest work The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952. In 1961, Hemingway passed away in the state of Idaho. |