HEMINGWAY'S BIOGRAPHY
...He traveled to places throughout Europe, Africa. Other times he traveled for the newspaper or magazine he was working for at the time. It was from these places and experiences that many of his works stemmed. Hemingway’s writing was a mix of his life and fiction. He took real events from his life and added to them. It was almost as if he in part lived vicariously through his work. He wanted to see action in WWI, but was rejected from the army. He then volunteered to the red cross only to be injured. Years later he wrote of his war times only adding the twist that he was a hero, saved lives and was an officer rather then a red cross volunteer. Death in the Afternoon was a novel based on his time spent in Spain watching the bull fights. The bull fights were something he had a great deal of respect for. I believe that it was something he wanted to do given his other active hobbies and love of adventure. I also learned of Hemingway’s love or should I say lust for women. I did know that Hemingway was married when he committed suicide and had three children in his lifetime. I did not know that the children had been from different women or that he had been married four times. Hemingway’s first son was with his first wife Hadley, while his second and third sons were with Pauline Pfeiffer. Hemingway was not really alone for any time period during his life. While married to one women he would begin seeing another, divorce his current wife at the time and later go on to marry the women he was seeing. The wives of his life included Hadley, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn then Mary Welsh his fourth and final wife. It seemed as though each time Hemingway moved or had some significant event in his life he would change wives soon to follow. Although, writing was his passion it was not his only activity. He also enjoyed sailing, boxing, fishing and hunting. Speaking stereo typically, these are not hobbies that I might think a writer to have. When I picture a writer, I picture a person that is clean, well dressed and maybe quite or kept to themselves. I do not picture a man that loves hunting. Not just hunting for rabbits, but African big game hunting. Likewise with fishing, deep sea fishing as well as in a stream. Hemingway was a big outdoors man and at points in his life looked very much the part of a “Mountain man.” I certainly would not think of a writer that would step into a boxing ring, but this to was something which he enjoyed too. I think I forget or do not think, that even though he was a famous writer he is a person just like anyone else with many different hobbies, interests and ...