Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was a very interesting man who lived and extremely interesting life. Born in Cicero(now called Oak Park), Illinois, July 21, 1899. He was the second child of six to his parents, Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Ernest's mother liked to dress him up as a girl and call him Ernestine, some would like to believe that this is why he acted like such a manly man later on. Some of Ernest's first works of writing were when he worked for the school newspaper in high school. He became such an accomplished author that he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Ernest wrote 10 novels, 10 short story collection and 5 non fiction works. He had a total of 4 wives and only one of them ended things with him instead of the other way around. He cheated on just about all of them and one of lost all of his writing and the carbons at the train station one day. He took a very strong interest in bullfighting when visiting Spain and a lot of his writings, specifically the ones starring Nick Adams, were based on things that happened in his real life. He was in 2 plane crashes but survived and ended up taking his own life by gunshot on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho.