The+Back+Story

Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now in Oak Park), Illinois. He was raised by his parents, Clarence and Grace Hemingway, in a conservative suburb in Chicago."In high school, Hemingway worked on his school newspaper,Trapeze and Tabula, writing primarily about sports. Immediately after graduation, the budding journalist went to work for the Kansas City Star, gaining experience that would later influence his distinctively stripped-down prose style" (Ernest Hemingway Biography). He served in World War I as an ambulence driver in the Italian Army and was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery. He married a nurse, Agnes Kurowsky, but she eventually left him for another man. Although this was devastating for Ernest, it influenced his work immensely and later led to his poem //A Farewell to Arms.// He also published a few novels with his first one being //The Sun Also Rises.// In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ernest suffered from both physical and mental health issues throughout his life and on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, he committed suicide.