He was present at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940 they separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II.
After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer they divorced after he returned from the Spanish Civil War where he had been a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). He published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926.
The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s " Lost Generation" expatriate community. In 1921, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929). In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Additional works, including three novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works, were published posthumously. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Ernest Hemingway working at his book For Whom the Bell Tolls at Sun Valley, Idaho in December 1939Įrnest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.