Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899. He started his career as a writer at a newspaper in Kansas City when he was 17 years old. He served in an ambulance volunteer unit in Italy during WW1 after he was denied military service for a defective eye. He was wounded during the war and spent time in hospitals in Milan.
After he recovered from the wounds and left the War. He spent time in Paris where he became aquatinted with other authors such as Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ezra Pound.
Hemingway had a love for big game hunting, bullfighting, and deep sea fishing which contributed to his writing. He traveled to Spain for the festival of San Fermin in Pamplona which was the basis of his first novel “The Sun Also Rises”
Hemingway was a correspondent during wartime, his time during the Spanish civil war contributed to his another of his novels, “For Whom The bell tolls” he also was present for key events in WW2 like D-Day.

Hemingway earned a Nobel prize for literature in 1954.

Hemingway retired to Idaho after health battles, he later died in 1961 by suicide.

Hemingway’s greatest work is “The Old Man and the Sea” which he wrote later on in his career. It is about a Cuban fisherman who embarks on a journey to catch a great Marlin in the Gulf Stream. After 48 days he prevails against the marlin and captures it to the boat. As he sails back the marlin is attacked by sharks while The sailor is fatigued and delirious. Once he gets to shore, all thats left is the skeletal corpse of the marlin, leaving nothing to gain for his long struggle for the creature.

Quote:

“The fish is my friend too…I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought”

This Quote is from The Old Man and the Sea, it depicts how the characters of his work often think, Hemingway uses this in his writing often depicting people heavily thinking about life and many other philosophical questions. This can be seen throughout Hemingway’s work.

Ernest Hemingway’s style of writing still inspired authors today. His prose and structure defines his writing. His masculine style of writing also enhanced his novels. Some of his most famous works were based on personal experiences that he turned into stories for his novels. From his early experience in WWI to his time in cuba, he uses those experiences to make stories portrayed in his writing.

His novels are a very interesting aspect of fiction novels. The way he uses his own experiences to form stories that became award winning novels is one reason he was a successful writer. A few of his major novel deal with adventure whether is be in the wild or at war. Hemingway’s novels are interesting and keep the reader intrigued with his stories and well developed characters.

Essential question: How can personal experiences be reflected in a fictional writing?

Hemingway uses personal experience to create stories for his writing. Instead of just telling his story of what happened and making it an auto biography. he uses aspects of his life to create characters and a storyline. For example, in A Farewell to arms, the main character has the same story Hemingway does during WW1, but after the main character is wounded, the story is different from what happened in Hemingway’s life. He only uses the experience as the idea of the story.