If the contents of theīook, please be as precise as you can as to the location. Please be clear in your message, if you are referring to the informationįound on this web page or the contents of the book. mobi file on your mobile device, please use. All of this was overshadowed by bouts of depression which he suffered throughout his life and which led to his suicide in 1961. His most famous novels such as 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'A Farewell to Arms' helped him win the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. 'Death in the Afternoon' relates some of his bullfighting experiences and 'The Green Hills of Africa' recalls his hunting trips in the jungle. Travelling back and forth between Europe and North America, he lived life large with bouts of drinking, brawling, bullfighting and big game hunting. These books cemented his reputation as a writer. During this era he also published a collection of short stories: 'Men Without Women' and a novel, 'The Sun Also Rises'. He reported on several conferences and his struggles to survive and the people he met are chronicled in his book, 'A Moveable Feast'.

Returning home, he briefly worked in Toronto for the Toronto Star before returning to Europe with his first of four wives.

In 1918 he joined the Red Cross and experienced the horrors of World War I on the Italian Front where he was badly wounded. Excelling in English at school, he became a junior reporter for the Kansas City Star. Born in Chicago, he was grew up in the prosperous suburb of Oak Park. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American writer of novels and short stories.

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