Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, United States in 1899 on July 21st.
He was a reporter for the Kansas City Star at age 17, and an ambulance driver during World War I. After the war he was a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. After winning notice for his short stories, novels such as 1929’s, A Farewell to Arms, brought him fame.
He was a noted anti-fascist, and worked as a correspondent in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, where he raised money for the Republicans.
Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
He died tragically by suicide in 1961.
The Sun Also Rises, 1926 A Farewell to Arms, 1929 To Have and Have Not, 1937 For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 Across the River and into the Trees, 1950 Islands in the Stream, 1970 The Garden of Eden, 1986
The Torrents of Spring, 1926 The Old Man and the Sea, 1952
Three Stories and Ten Poems, 1923 in our time, 1924 (Chapbook) In Our Time, 1925 (Republished with fourteen additional short stories) Men Without Women, 1927 Winner Take Nothing, 1933 The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, 1938 The Essential Hemingway, 1947 The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, 1961
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