Ernest+Hemingway

=Ernest Hemingway=

In 1899 Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. In WWI he served as an ambulance driver, he worked for many newspapers starting his writing career, and is now considered one of the greatest authors of all time. In 1921 Hemingway settled down in Paris, France, joining Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford in the expatriate circle. After his novels became popular, Hemingway returned to the United States in 1927, and then moved to Cuba in 1930. Throughout his life, Hemingway traveled throughout Spain, Italy, and Africa living an exciting life; in Africa Hemingway became a big-game hunter. It is thought that the relationships he fostered in Paris had the most notable impact on his work. In 1961 Ernest Hemingway committed suicide and died in Ketchum, Idaho.

 Although Hemingway has written many novels and short stories, his two most famous pieces of work include, The Sun Also Rises, and A Farewell to Arms. He has also written In Our Time, Men Without Women, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and many others. Hemingway’s writing style was very simple. He tried to avoid any unnecessary words whose only purpose was to take up space. He was able to transmit a certain emotion onto his reader without all the flowery language. Because Hemingway’s writing was more direct, some described him as a “master of dialog”. Hemingway’s writing style still influences writers today. He became of master at finding the meaning and importance in a moment and focusing on that. He also had a way of capturing a moment that made his writing understandable to all readers around the world. Hemingway could evoke new thoughts and feelings in his readers simply by his choice of words.

While traveling through Paris, tourists can visit Les Deaux Magot, a cafè frequented by many literary minds like Hemingway. He even used the cafè as a setting in The Sun Also Rises. Hotel d'Angleterre is where Hemingway and his wife spent their first nights in Paris. Café de Flore was another favorite place of Hemingway and his circle of author/artist friends. Hemingway and his family would spend time in Jardin du Luxembourg with its beautiful grounds and fountains; it is the second largest public park in Paris. Shakespeare and Company is a historic bookstore where Hemingway often borrowed books and spoke about his writing with other authors. It is located along the left bank of the Seine, and is actually not the original location which closed in 1940.