Author Biography
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) He was born in Illinois. Hemingway was the oldest of his 2 siblings. His firt job was as a writer for a newspaper office in Kansas City. Heminway then joined an ambulance unit in Italy during World War I. While he was injured he wrote his first book. When he returned from the war he got a job as a reporter. During this time he wrote many books which ended up getting published. While Hemingway was a reporter he became a heavy drinker. Although it did not affect his writing it took a toll on his health. In 1960 Hemingway was hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic, he was treated for depression with electric shock thearpy. Later in 1961, after his release, he shot himself with his favorite shotgun at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
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