Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. His distinctive composing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. He created most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his books are classics of American literature. He released seven stories, six short story collections, and two non-fiction books during his lifetime; a further three stories, four collections of short novels, and three non-fiction books were released posthumously.
Hemingway started life and brought up in Oak Park, Illinois. After leaving university he worked for a few months as a reporter for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War i, which became the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives, and the couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. During his time there he met and was influenced by modernist authors and artists of the 1920s expatriate community known as the Lost Generation. His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was released in 1926.
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