Ernest Hemingway was not drafted into the army - his health prevented him from serving. However, he more than once, as a volunteer, took part in hostilities in European theaters of war. The writer threw out his rich life experience on the pages of his works. Some of his books have entered the treasury of world literature.
From the biography of Ernest Hemingway
American journalist and writer Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899. His birthplace was Oak Park, Illinois. The father of the future writer was a doctor. Ernest was the eldest of six children. During his studies, the boy changed several schools. Already in those years, Hemingway wrote poems and stories that were published in school newspapers.
After graduating from high school, Ernest became a correspondent for the newspaper "Star", published in Kansas. At an early age, Hemingway suffered an eye injury, so he was not drafted into the army to participate in the imperialist war. However, Ernest volunteered for a war-torn Europe. He ended up on the Italian-Austrian front, where he became the chauffeur of the Red Cross mission.
In the summer of 1918, Ernest was wounded in the leg while trying to carry an Italian soldier off the battlefield. For valor and courage, the young man was awarded two Italian orders.
After completing his military mission, Hemingway spent some time healing his wounds in Michigan. Then he went to Europe again, traveled a lot, writing articles for newspapers.
Hemingway's creative path
In the capital of France, Hemingway meets American writers Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald. At the same time, he started writing literary works. Ernest's first stories were published in Paris. Some of them were included in the collection "In Our Time" (1924).
Success came to Ernest after the publication of the novel The Sun Also Rises (1926). In this book, the author expressed his ideas about the mood among the representatives of the "lost generation", Spanish and French repatriates of the 1920s. Critics have praised this essay. Hemingway has a reputation as a promising young writer.
A year later, the writer published a collection of stories, after which he returned to his native country. He chose Florida as his residence. Here he worked hard on the completion of the novel "A Farewell to Arms". The book was a tremendous success. She was favored by both readers and picky critics.
In 1928, the writer's father committed suicide. Since the beginning of the 30s, there has been a decline in Hemingway's work. He spent a lot of time on bullfights in sunny Spain, on safari in Africa. He could be seen fishing in Florida. The impressions of those times were reflected in his books "Death in the Afternoon" (1932), "Green Hills of Africa" (1935), "To Have or Not to Have" (1937).
For whom the Bell Tolls?
With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Hemingway went to the front. He became a war correspondent and screenwriter for a documentary film for the Dutch director Ivens. After a long stay in belligerent Spain, Ernest offers his readers the play The Fifth Column (1938) and the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940).
The American writer took part in World War II: as a war correspondent, he flew a number of sorties with the British Air Force. In August 1944, Hemingway, together with the allied forces, entered the French capital. The award for military prowess of the writer was the Bronze Star.
The pinnacle of Hemingway's writing skills is considered to be his lyrical story "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952). Published in Life magazine, this essay has caused a truly worldwide resonance. For this book, Hemingway received the Nobel Prize (1954).
In 1960, the writer ended up in a Minnesota clinic with a diagnosis of depression, mental disorder. When Hemingway recovered a little from his illness, he realized that he could no longer write. This exacerbated the symptoms of the disease.
The great American master of the artistic word committed suicide on June 2, 1961. Hemingway's life was cut short by a shot from a gun.
The writer was married four times. In the first two marriages, he had three sons.
