Monday, January 20, 2020

Ernest Hemingway Essay -- essays research papers

Ernest M. Hemingway   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ernest Miller Hemingway was a novelist and short story writer, who became well known for the passion that he used in all his writings. Many of his works are regarded as classics of American Literature, and some have even been made into motion pictures. The Old Man and the Sea, which is the story about an old Cuban fisherman, was published in 1952. Because of this creation, in 1954 Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He was educated in Oak Park High School and graduated in 1917. After graduating, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. He left his job within a few months to serve as a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy during World War I (1914-1918). After the war he served as a correspondent on the Toronto Star and then settled in Paris. While there, he was encouraged in creative work by the American expatiate writers Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein.   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  During World War II, Hemingway became a reporter for the United States First Army; although he was not a soldier, he participated in several battles. After the war Hemingway settled near Havana, Cuba in 1958. While Hemingway lived near Havana, Cuba, a friend of his told him about an old man that lived nearby. That’s where he got the idea of writing the Nobel Prize short story winner titled, The Old Man and the Sea. The story of the old man that his ...

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