Ernest Hemingway

   Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and was educated there in the public schools. Rather than attend college, however,  Hemingway decided to work for the Kansas City Star newspaper. In World War I Hemingway  served as a Red Cross ambulance driver in the Italian Army until he was severely wounded in action. 

    After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and  American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.After recuperating in Italy, he settled in Paris, where he began his serious  writing career while spending time with other American expatriates, including Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein.

     In 1926 Hemingway published his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, a  depiction of what Stein referred to as the "lost generation" of young people in the  1920's. This novel not only established Hemingway as the preeminent writer of his generation,  but revealed two key principles that would inform the writing of most of his career. First, he demonstrated his determination to strip language to its most essential components by omitting any word not absolutely necessary. Second, he stressed the  importance of authentic experience in his work, confessing, "I found the greatest  difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and  had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action: what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced." During the following  decade Hemingway traveled to Spain, Africa, and Florida, gaining material for his  future works through his experiences as bullfight aficionado, big game hunter, and deep  sea fisherman. 

   Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). He served as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War -- which  eventually became the background for his 1939 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls -- and World  War II. Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in  1953, and contributed to his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

   By the  1960's, however, Hemingway was in poor health, depressed, and losing his memory, and  he committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.

*** Many people consider Hemingway as some cheap drunk writer who spent most of his life chasing the women that Pablo Picasso slept with....But at the same time NO ONE can deny that he was one of the greatest writers in the 20th century and many of those stories about him were rumors spread by the Zionist organisations because of Hemingways anti-Zionist beliefs.