Hemingway

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religious. He attended Oak Park and River Forest High School, where he distinguished himself in English. His main activities where swimming, boxing, and of course writing. In 1917, turning his back on University, he decided to move to booming Kansas City where he got a job as a cub reporter on the Kansas City Star. At the train station, his father, who later on disgusted Ernest by committing suicide, kissed his son tenderly good-bye with tears in his eyes. This moment was eventually captured in For Whom the Bell Tolls. wrote that he felt 'so much older than his father... that he could hardly bear it'. The Star was the first to introduce Ernest to news writing which demands brief, to the point sentences, that contain a smooth easy following of ideas. He would later adapt this style to his fiction. In May of 1918, became an honorary second lieutenant in the Red Cross. He could not join the army due to a defective left eye (resentfully inherited from his mother). On his first ...

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It was in Chicago that met Elizabeth Hadley Richardson. She was an innocent young woman with graceful features and a strong attraction for the eight year younger . Not having much income and wanting to marry Hadley, Ernest chose to move to Paris. managed to convince the Toronto Star to accept a series of Letters from Europe. The young couple also received money from Hadley's trust fund while Ernest continued to work as a sparing partner for boxers. In Paris, encountered many of the greats (historically known as The Expatriates). He met Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Scott Fitzgerald , Ford Madox Ford and John Dos Passos. It was Stein who took him under her wing. She had been ...

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