Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) «The person is created

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) "The person is created not to suffer defeat .The person can be destroyed, but he cannot be won."

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago . He was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

After leaving high school he worked for a few months as a reporter, before leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War I. At the age of 17 Hemingway published his first literary work.

The nightmarish war experience changed his life. Hemingway believed that to write well, you should experience first hand the subject about which you write.

After the war, he still worked as a reporter. He was sent to Paris and was encouraged to write. He also worked as a war reporter in the Spanish Civil War and WWII. Loved tough games: boxing, hunting, deep-sea fishing, bullfighting. He was injured many times. In all the operations, 237 steel fragments were taken out from Hemingway’s body. He also suffered 3 car accidents and 2 air crushes. He was admired as a hero by many people. In 1961, Hemingway shot himself with a gun in his home.

He was a member of movement “Lost Generation” (The term was popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, The Sun Also Rises.)

“The Sun Also Rises” 1926 the life of a generation after WWI “A Farewell to Arms” 1928 a tragic story about war and love “For Whom the Bell Tolls” 1940 Spanish civil war - also about war and love Works

“The Old Man and the Sea” 1952 ─ In 1953, Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize

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