Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of
six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front Hemingway came home to
America in 1919 only to return to the battlefield ¿ this time as a reporter on the
Greco-Turkish war ¿ in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead he
moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as
Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly
becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1954 following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea . He died in
1961.
