Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). US novelist. He became a reporter on leaving school and served with the Red Cross in World War I. The book with which he made his name as a writer, A Farewell to Arms (1929), was based on his wartime experiences. Later works reflect his interest in the cultures of Africa, Spain, and Cuba, and his enthusiasm for big-game hunting and bullfighting. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) is a story of the Spanish Civil War, which Hemingway witnessed as a war correspondent. He was also an accredited correspondent during World War II. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954. Always subject to depression, he committed suicide by shooting himself.
