Ernest Miller Hemingway

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This arrangement was alright
until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill".
He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for
his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and
quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in
school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though it appeared in the
Bible.
Ernest loved to fish, canoe and explore the woods. When he couldn't
get outside, he escaped to his room and read books. He loved to tell stories
to his classmates, often insisting that a friend listen to one of his stories.
In spite of his mother's desire, he played on the football team at Oak Park
High School.
As a student, Ernest was a perfectionist about his grammar and studied
English with a fervor. He contributed articles to the weekly school newspaper.
It seems that the principal did not approve of Ernest's writings and he
complained, often, ...

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and bought him a
typewriter for his birthday. They decided that the best place for a writer to
live was Paris, where he could devote himself to his writing. He said, at the
time, that the most difficult thing to write about was being a man. They
could not live on income from his stories and so Ernest, again, wrote for The
Toronto Star.
Ernest took Hadley to Italy to show her where he had been during the
war. He was devastated, everything had changed, everything was destroyed.
Hadley became pregnant and was sick all the time. She and Ernest
decided to move to Canada. He had, by then written three stories and ten poems.
Hadley gave birth to a boy who they named John Hadley ...

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