Tribute to Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was an American Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899. “Papa,” as he was called, was a lean, mean writing machine, and by "lean" I'm not referring to his body mass index. Sparse, direct, simple, unadorned, almost stingy are words sometimes used to describe his prose. You won’t find his work dripping with over-flowery sentences. Perhaps he saved those fluffy words for the women by his side—and he did have a number of them. Most of the subject matter of his books was gleaned from his own life experiences and travels. His duty as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian front during WWI became the basis for his semi-autographical novel, A Farewell to Arms . Like the main character Frederic Henry in the book, Hemingway was seriously wounded and fell in love with a nurse who tended to him. During the 1920s Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, lived in Paris. Th...