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❖ It remains a fact that he did benefit not a little from their schooling.
❖ For him Anderson was a guide in style, and for Gertrude Stein, Hemingway himself acknowledged that he learned everything from her “about the abstract relationships of words,” the many truths about rhythms and the uses of words in repetition.
❖ Born on July 21, 1899 at Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago, Ernest Hemingway, under the influence of his father who was a successful physician with a relish for hunting and fishing, loved the outdoors from childhood.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Ernest Hemingway, a spokesman for the Lost Generation, a Nobel Prize winner for literature, is one of the greatest American writers. His writing style, the particular type of hero and theme in his novels, and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated all over the world.
❖ Shortly after he arrived the front in Italy, about three weeks, he was wounded on both legs and sent to an Italian hospital. During his six-month stay in the hospital, he fell in love with an English nurse.
❖ His war experience proved so shattering and nightmarish that his life and writinFra Baidu biblioteks were permanently affected. In a sense, all his life he lived with it emotionally and continued to write about it in order to relive it and forget about it.
❖ He did run away from home twice and observed once that the best training for a writer is an unhappy childhood.
❖ After graduation from Oak Park High School in 1917, he chose not to go to college. Instead he left home and worked briefly for the Star as a reporter in Kansas City. The short simple sentences characteristic of his prose style might have come from such experience.
❖ After the war, he, together with his first wife Hadley Richardson, went to Paris as a foreign reporter, employed by The Toronto Star. Influenced and guided by Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, he became a writer and began to attract attention.
❖ When America entered World War I in 1917, he tried to enlist in the army, but was rejected because of his bad eye which he had injured while learning boxing. Then he was recruited as an ambulance driver working with the Red Cross and went to Europe.
❖ Pound’s advice to Hemingway was particularity and concision. As a journalist, he trained himself in the economy of expression. In Paris he divorced his first wife in 1927 and married the second one, Pauline Pfeiffer.
❖ His mother was a singer and a music teacher. Both parents expected their son to excel and he complied. He was an excellent student at high school and loved athletic competitions such as football and boxing, and became interested in journalism.