He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for his novel The Sun Also Rises and the Noble Prize in Literature in 1954 and retired to Idaho, where he died in 1961 by suicide.
After a stint in Paris, where he witnessed the city’s liberation from Nazi control, Hemingway took up residence in Cuba. In Spain, Hemingway witnessed the Battle of the Ebro, where the Republicans suffered a disastrous defeat at the hands of the Francoist Nationalist forces.
In 1937, Hemingway traveled to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War, where he gathered material for the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls as well as his only play, The Fifth Column. After years in Paris, where he enjoyed celebrity among the expatriates, and the publication of his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926, Hemingway went on to Key West, Wyoming, and the Caribbean. Hemingway was wounded by mortar fire after bringing goods to Italian soldiers at the front line and returned home to Michigan thereafter, using his experiences with shell shock as a basis for one of his most famous characters, the soldier Nick Adams, a wounded soldier who finds solitude in the Michigan countryside after war in the short story “Big Two-Hearted River.” Hemingway returned to Europe and settled in Paris with his first wife, Hadley, in 1921, eager to start over in a city famous for its communities of expatriate artists. Cummings, John Dos Passos, and Gertrude Stein-who identified with the Allied Powers’ cause but, for reasons of gender or age, could not participate in combat. In 1918, shortly after the advent of World War I, Hemingway traveled to Italy to become a volunteer ambulance driver, joining a cohort of American artists-including E.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, a suburb outside of Chicago, where he was raised in a wealthy, educated family and harbored dreams of becoming a journalist.
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