Ernest Miller Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21st, 1899 to Dr. Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall Hemingway. Hemingway was brought up in a somewhat conservative household that pushed the value of politeness and religion in a small town called Oak Park, Illinois. It was not until he began school that he realized his talent for writing. After he graduated from high school Hemingway decided to not continue his education and he decided to move to Kansas City. The young Hemingway got his first job as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. The Star was the first to introduce to him the news-writing format that demands concise to the point sentences and smooth flowing of ideas, that he later became famous for in his fiction writing. Hemingway demonstrates this talent in a short story called "A Clean Well-Lighted Place". 
When Hemingway was nineteen he joined the Red Cross in order to participate in the war, since the army due to a defective eye rejected him. After a terrible injury involving Australian mines, Hemingway returned unhappily to Oak Park. His participation in the war had greatly change Hemingway and it showed. He refused to get a job while living home, even when his mother ordered him to. Hemingway’s Mother then kicked him out and he moved to Chicago. In Chicago he got a job writing for the Toronto Star. While he was in Chicago he met his first wife Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. The young couple married in 1921 and moved to Paris in 1922. It was here where Hemingway encountered many great writers that greatly impacted him; F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. Stein took Hemingway under her wing and he began to see her as a surrogate mother. She pointed him in the direction of the simple declarative sentence. After Hemingway and Hadley visited the Festival of San Fermi in Pamplona, Spain in 1923, he became fascinated with bullfighting. The interest in bullfighting may have brought inspiration for “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”.
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