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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

 Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 at o'clock A.M. in Oak Park, Illinois. In Ernest Hemingway's sixty two years of life he used his undeniable gift of writing to captivate many in the United States. Hemingway was raised in a conservative town that taught values of strong religion, hard work, physical fitness and self determination.

As a boy Ernest was taught how to hunt and fish by his father, and this took up most of his childhood time because his parents owned a summer home on Walloon lake in northern Michigan. These memories shaped his life and work, and Ernest always had a love for Nature.

When he wasn't hunting or fishing, his mother was teaching him the ins and outs of music. Although Ernest dreaded going to choir and cello classes, his knowledge helped him connect with his wife's interest in the piano later in his life.

In May of 1918, Ernest Hemingway sailed to Europe to fight for the United States in World War I. He left his job at the Kansas City //Star// in April of 1918. In the short time that Hemingway worked for the Kansas City //Star// he learned some writing lessons that would have a huge impact on his fiction later in life. The newspaper taught short sentences, short paragraphs, active verbs, authenticity, compression, clarity and immediacy. Hemingway later said: "Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. I've never forgotten them." Working at the Kansas City Star shaped his writing and made him the brilliant writer he became.

While serving in Paris, he was awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Valor with the official Italian citation reading: "Gravely wounded by numerous pieces of shrapnel from an enemy shell, with an admirable spirit of brotherhood, before taking care of himself, he rendered generous assistance to the Italian soldiers more seriously wounded by the same explosion and did not allow himself to be carried elsewhere until after they had been evacuated." Hemingway's wounding by the Piave River in Italy and his his recovery following at a hospital in Milan, including the relationship with his nurse Agnes von Kurowsky, all inspired his great novel //A Farewell To Arms.//

When Hemingway returned home from Italy in January of 1919 he found Oak Park boring compared to the adventures of war. He was nineteen years old and had matured beyond his years. Lessons learned through the war changed and influenced his writing to what we see and read today.

References Clarence Hemingway- Father (740)-298-8923

Grace Hall Hemingway- Mother (740)-209-8250

Contact Info

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