Ernest Miller Hemingway Book summary

Ernest Miller Hemingway is one of the most well-known American authors of what is commonly called “The Lost Generation.” Hemingway was born on the 2nd of 1899 to be the second child of a six-child household. He was raised in a strictly religious household in the suburbs of Chicago and had a tumultuous relationship with his parents. Hemingway was a gifted writer from a young age, and he wanted to pursue a career as a writer immediately after completing high school or join the military, but his father disagreed. Hemingway’s father wanted him to go to University, and this difference between them led to Hemingway moving out on his own. In later life, Hemingway criticized his parents for possessing distinctly middle-class values, and for creating an oppressive environment for their children.

Hemingway worked with a newspaper, and his time in this career shaped his fiction writing later. Hemingway served in the Red Cross as an ambulance driver during WWI, but he suffered an injury shortly after his work. Hemingway fell in love with the nurse who was administering to him, but their relationship didn’t last just like Hemingway’s four other marriages. Hemingway struggled with depression and alcoholism for nearly his whole life until he eventually died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1961.

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