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Lived and born in Oak Park, Chicago. He had one brother and four sisters. His mother was a opera singer and his father was a doctor. Hemingway's mother dreamed that he would be a singer and follow in her steps. she gave him singing lessons when he wasn't fishing or hunting. Hemingway's father was abusive and would whip him when he misbehaved.
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USA joined the war against Germany and Austria. When Hemingway turned 18 he tried to enlist in the army but failed to go.
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Hemingway did many things during his high school life. He played football, track water basketball, and swimming. He found his true calling, writing, in high school and wrote for the school's newspaper called Trapeze.
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Instead of going to college, Hemingway scored a job with Kansas City Star, a large newspaper company, as a cub reporter and became a fictional writer in the paper. Working at the newspaper improved his writings because the paper printed rules about short sentences, paragraphs, and how to use verbs correctly.
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Heimgway heard of the Red Cross asking for volenteers to help the soldiers over seas he took the idea and was accepted to go and help them.
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Hemingway quit his job at the Kansas City Star newspaper. He sailed over seas to Eurpoe in May. He first arrived in Paris and then sailed over to Milan in June. within a few days of being over seas he experienced and saw many men be very injured and some even dead on the front line.
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Hemingway became injured from an Astria mortar shell only a few feet away from him. He was handing Iltalian soldiers chocolate and cigarettes that were on the front line. when he got hit, he became unconsious. He had at least 200 pieces of shrappnel in his leg and still managed to carry a soldier to the closest first aid station. he also was shot in the legs several times by a machine gun. He met his first love Agnes in the first aid station. She was his insperation to write " A Farwell to Arms"
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He returned to Oak Park to find his mother unhappy of his life so far and kicked him out of the house. She requiered him to find a good structrual job. With his return he wrote a book called "Soldiers Home". It conveyed on how he thought about the return and his family.
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He began working for the Star Weekly newspaper while living in Chicago. He lived at a friend's house when he met Hadley Richardson. She was his second love.
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Hadley and Hemingway married in September. By November, he accepted Toronto's Daily Star newspaper as a Eurpoe coressponder. The two lovers moved to Paris, France. They lived in a very bad apartment but earned $3000 dollars of income. That was very high during the economic time.
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Hemingway mainly covered the Geneva conference, Greco-Turkish war, Luasanna confrence, post war convention over Ruhr Valley. Also he wrote pieces on hunting, fishing, bull fighting, and, the social life in Europe.
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Hemingway and Hadley found out they were expecting a baby and moved back to America. They wanted the baby to have the proper medical attention. Meantime, he worked for Toroto Daily Star while they waited for the baby to be born.
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John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway was born on October 10, 1923, and the family moved back to Paris in 1924 for Hemingway to continue his writings.
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Ford Maddox Ford and his partner Ezra Pound, edited and publised some of Hemingway's work. It included, "Indian Camp" and "Cross Country Snow".
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A Farewell to Arms was writen about his arival home and what happened after the war
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Death in the Afternoon was written about his love for
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When Hemingway's first novel was published, he went inot a literary block and decided to join the war. He experienced the most bloody fights and recived the nickname "Papa" from his military and literary work.
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Hemingway publised his first novel, From whom bells toll, in 1940.
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In London, Hemingway met and quickly married, Mary Welsh who also worked in the literary world. After the war, they bought a house near Havana, Cuba
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Inspired by the fishing culture in Cuba, Hemingway rote the story, The Old man and The Sea. He was inspired by a close friend he made in Cuba who loved to fish as much as him.
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Hemingway and Welsh had planned a trip on journeying to Africa for hunting experience and more insperation to his upcoming stories. On the way there, their plane crashed over Belgian Congo. He suffered serious burns and internal injuries. In the Cuba there was a rebellion of the government and forced Hemingway to Idaho.
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Within a few months of living in Idaho, Hemingway was amitted to Mayo Clinic to be treated for high blood pressure and depression. They used a therapy called electroshock, creating it hard for him to write. He became very illy depressed over the fact of physical and impared ability to write.
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He commited sucide after he was released from hospitalization
