Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, began his career as a writer in a Kansas City based newspaper at the age of 17. After the outbreak of World War I, he left the United States and served in Italy as a volunteer ambulance driver. After the war and after returning home, he was a reporter for various American and Canadian newspapers throughout the country. Eventually, he would leave the country again and return to Europe to cover events such as the Greek Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. It was these events (including WWI), that inspired him to write his earliest works including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway, being the sportsman that he was, liked to portray soldiers, hunters (The Old Man and the Sea), and even bullfighters. His overall career was very successful and he died in 1961 of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, began his career as a writer in a Kansas City based newspaper at the age of 17. After the outbreak of World War I, he left the United States and served in Italy as a volunteer ambulance driver. After the war and after returning home, he was a reporter for various American and Canadian newspapers throughout the country. Eventually, he would leave the country again and return to Europe to cover events such as the Greek Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. It was these events (including WWI), that inspired him to write his earliest works including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Hemingway, being the sportsman that he was, liked to portray soldiers, hunters (The Old Man and the Sea), and even bullfighters. His overall career was very successful and he died in 1961 of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.