Santiago goes into the Gulf and engages in the fight of his life with a giant marlin. He is cared for by a young boy, Manolin, who no longer works on his boat. There's an old man, Santiago, who is a fisherman fallen on hard times. I picked it up again, after the passage of some years, and found it incredibly poignant. I thought it was about a crazy old man gone off the reservation, picking a fight with an innocent fish while ranting about the New York Yankees ('I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing. I read this as a young man and was disappointed. Nevertheless, in 1959, he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.

Shortly after 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where two plane crashes almost killed him and left him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. When he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II, they separated he presently witnessed at the Normandy landings and liberation of Paris. Martha Gellhorn served as third wife of Hemingway in 1940. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s. At the Spanish civil war, he acted as a journalist afterward, they divorced, and he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. The couple moved, and he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the expatriate community of the 'lost generation' of 1920s.Īfter his divorce of 1927 from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1918, someone seriously wounded him, who returned home. People consider many of these classics.Īfter high school, Hemingway reported for a few months for the Kansas City Star before leaving for the Italian front to enlist. Survivors published posthumously three novels, four collections of short stories, and three nonfiction works. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two nonfiction works.

Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. Terse literary style of Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American writer, ambulance driver of World War I, journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, marks short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which concern courageous, lonely characters, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1954 for literature.Įconomical and understated style of Hemingway strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, whereas his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.

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