The old man
...sis a. Theme 1. Reality 2. Experiences 3. Love b. Point of View IV Conclusion V work Cited Page Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born to Clarence and Grace Hemingway in Oak Park Illinois. His father committed suicide in 1929 and his mother died in 1951. In 1921 he married Hadley Richardson, divorced her and married Pauline Pfeiffer, they had two sons Patrick and Gregory. In 1940, he divorces Pauline and married Mary Gellhorn in 1946 (Timeline of Ernest Hemingway pg 1). He graduated high school in 1917. He started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. Before coming to the United States, he entered the First World War and joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded and decorated by the Italian government, and spent considerable time in hospitals (Nobleprize.com pg 1). After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for the Canadian and American newspapers and sent back to Europe covering such events as the Greek revaluation. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first work, The Sun Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farwell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer’s disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter, Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter featuring the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel F...