If someone ever asked me to pick my favorite author, I don’t
think I would be able to do it. I have too many authors that I enjoy over and
over. One of those author’s that I find myself going back to time and time
again is Ernest
Hemingway was an incredibly interesting person who lived an
incredibly interesting life. His writing career began during high school where
he worked on the newspaper. After high school, he went on to work for a Kansas
City newspaper. His time as a journalist really helped develop the
stripped-down style of writing he is known for.
After World War I, Hemingway met and married his first wife
and they moved to Paris. This was during an era of time now known as the “Expatriot
Era” of history. Artists were fleeing to Europe left and right looking for that
inspiration and free life that European living can offer. It was here in Paris
that Hemingway met other famed artists like F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce
and Pablo Picasso.
Hemingway would go on to marry 3 more times and move between
Paris, Key West and Cuba. His most well-known works are The Sun Also Rises, A
Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. It was
for The Old Man and the Sea that Hemingway finally won a Pulitzer Prize.
Hemingway was never a very healthy person and struggled with
old injuries, illnesses and depression throughout his life. Some say this is
part of the reason why his books are so good. Others say it is because of the Absinth
– his drink of choice. The world will never know as Hemingway committed suicide
in 1961.
His creative talent could never be denied. When asked about
his art, Hemingway famously said:
"From things
that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you
know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention
that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and
alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it
immortality."
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