Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most famous figures of American literature. He was an excellent novelist and a master of short forms. Hemingway was the head of the disillusioned ”Lost Generation”.

Biography
Hemingway was born in 1899 in Illinois, the USA. He didn’t stay there all his life; Cuba and Paris became his adopted homes. He left a college to begin a career of a journalist. Hemingway was a participant of the First World War and the Second World War. He was deeply interested in public affairs thus his life was interesting and full of adventures.
Ernest Hemingway was keen on hunting, fishing and bullfighting and these activities became the background for many of his novels and short stories.