Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was one of, if not the best writers
of the late nineteenth to twentieth centuries. He came from an interesting
childhood to a macho middle-age, before dying quite early in his sixties. He
led an awesome life, and was in both wars. He also won many fishing awards. Not
only this, but Hemingway had the “accomplishment” of having four wives. This
isn’t a real accomplishment because it means he also had to divorce three of
them, but it does speak to him being a “woman’s man”. He was very macho, and he
had a professional friendship with Gertrude Stein in his earlier years, and it
is said that she was the one who helped him with his writing style. He served
as a Red Cross volunteer in World War I, but then moved to the front lines
where he promptly was injured. He survived, however, and he went back during
World War II as a member of the press. There were fabled stories of his
heroics, including one story of him throwing a grenade into a bunker where
rumored Nazi troopers were supposedly hiding. It was never determined if there
were any, but Hemingway took pride in knowing he had killed some. He wrote many
short stories throughout his life, and several full books as well. Hemingway
was a very poetic writer, and styled some of his writing after the author Mark
Twain. However, he still was able to furnish his own style, writing in short, and
intense prose.
