Hemingway was the first son and the second child born to Clarence Edmonds "Doctor Ed" Hemingway, a country doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway. His protagonists are typically stoic males who must show "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered canonical in American literature.Įrnest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. It had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement. In July 1961, he committed suicide by shooting himself.
During his later life, Hemingway suffered from increasing physical and mental problems. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea. For a serious writer, he achieved a rare cult-like popularity during his lifetime. He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir A Moveable Feast. Thompson, Colm Tóibín, Bret Easton EllisĮrnest Miller Hemingway (J– July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist.
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