Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of a doctor, and spent summers in northern Michigan, where he learned to hunt and fish. After high school he worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. In 1918 he went to Italy as a Red Cross ambulance driver and was badly wounded; he fell in love with a nurse while recovering in Milan, experiences that shaped A Farewell to Arms (1929). In the 1920s he lived in Paris as a foreign correspondent among other expatriate writers and published The Sun Also Rises (1926). His spare, direct prose style was widely imitated. He reported on the Spanish Civil War, which inspired For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and on the Second World War, including the Normandy landings. He lived for many years in Key West and in Cuba. The Old Man and the Sea (1952), about an aging Cuban fisherman's struggle with a great marlin, won the Pulitzer Prize, and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961.

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Faith: Converted to Catholicism before his marriage to Pauline Pfeiffer; his personal beliefs are otherwise not well documented. Source: Wikipedia