2 Quotes & Sayings By Hemmingway Ernest
Ernest Hemmingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago. His father, a physician, was from a small town in Michigan and his mother from Missouri. After the family moved to Kansas City, Hemingway attended high school there and then enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1917 he began working as a reporter for the Kansas City Star
In 1920 he married Hadley Richardson and moved to Paris with her, where they had two sons. Hemingway worked mainly for British newspapers during the 1920s but also published his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems, in 1927. In 1932 he published For Whom the Bell Tolls, an autobiographical novel based on his experiences in Spain during the Spanish Civil War; it won the Pulitzer Prize that year.
During World War II he served with an American ambulance unit that included such well-known writers as William Styron and John Hersey. Suffering from serious physical and mental problems (he often suffered from nervous exhaustion), he committed suicide in 1961 by gunshot to the head at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.