Ernest Hemingway ~ Books, Bio, & Links

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois.  He started writing in 1917 for The Kansas City Star, but when World War I rolled around he became a volunteer ambulance driver at the Italian front.  He was seriously injured, however, and was sent home.

In 1921 Hemingway settled in Paris and became part of the famed American expatriate circle including other authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Maddox Ford, and Gertrude Stein.

The Sun Also Rises (published in 1926) brought Hemingway into the limelight and earned him the title of 'the voice of the lost generation'.

In his time he was awarded both a Pulitzer Prize (in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1954 "for his powerful, style-forming mastery of the art of narration").

He commited suicide on July 2, 1961

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