Ernest Hemingway was one of the most famous American novelist, short-story writers and essayist of his time. His simple style of writing influenced a wide range of writers. In 1954, Hemmingway was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature. Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899. His mother was Grace Hall and she had an operatic career. She dressed Hemmingway as a little girl in his youth and he never forgave her for that. Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemmingway was his father and he taught his son to love the out-door life. In 1928 Hemmingway’s father took his own life after losing his health to diabetes and his money in the Florida real-estate bubble. Hemingway attended the public schools in Oak Park. Some of his earliest stories and poems were published in his high school newspaper. After he graduated from high school in 1917, he worked six months as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. During World War I, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in Italy. He suffered a severe leg wound in 1918. The Italian government acknowledged him twice for his service in their country. During his hospital recuperation, he had an affair with an American nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. This affair was the basis for the novel A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1929). This novel was a tragic love story and it was first filmed in 1932. He worked as a journalist in Chicago after the war. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he wrote articles for the Toronto Star. Hemingway’s language is very straightforward. He uses irony and omission which make the text meaningful and rich in allusions. When Hemingway was a reporter he had already started drinking and he could tolerate large amounts of alcohol. For a long time, his drinking didn’t disturb the quality of his writing. Late in the 1940s he started to hear voices in his head, he was overweight, he had high blood pressure and he had all the signs of cirrhosis of the liver. He taught his 12-year- old son Patrick to drink along with all his other brothers. Hemingway was hospitalized in 1960 at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for the treatment of depression. He was released in 1961. He was given electric shock therapy for two months. Hemingway committed suicide with his favorite shotgun at his home in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
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