Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in July 21, 1899, Oak Park, Illinois. He was an American writer and journalist. Most of his works were fiction characterized by mainly economy and understatements. Owing to his profession of being a journalist he was also an adventurous person. He did his production in the 20th century (the mid 1920s and also mid 1950s). He ventured into journalism after finishing school where he worked for The Kansas City Star. Afterwards he left for the Italian font where he became an ambulance driver during World War I. This is what led to the production of the novel A Farwell to Arms. In 1922 he married his first of four wives, Hadley Richardson. They moved to Paris where he worked as a foreign correspondent. During his stay in Paris, he was influenced by a certain community known as the ‘Lost Generation’. It comprised modernist writers and artists of the 1920s. This is what saw the publication of his first novel The Sun Also Rises in 1924. He divorced Hadley in 1927 and married Pauline Pfeiffer. After his return from covering the Spanish Civil War, he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls as well as divorcing his second wife. In the year 1940, Martha Gellhorn became his third wife. He later left her for Mary Welsh after World War II. After the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, he went on safari to Africa. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. In 1959 he moved to Ketchum, Idaho where he tragically ended his life in 1961. In total he published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works.
