“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another”  (Ernest Hemingway)

Ernest Hemingway – the famous American writer, journalist, Nobel Prize laureate.

The writer was born in 1899, in a suburb of Chicago – Oak Park, United States.

Career

The first real success came to Hemingway in 1926, after the publication of “The Sun Also Rises“- the brilliant novel illustrating “lost generation” of French and Spanish immigrants of the 1920s.

Hу was portrayed in Woody Allen‘s movie “Midnight in Paris“:

The writer took an active part in the struggle against fascism. In the midst of the war, he visited Spain four times. He organized the delivery ambulances to the republican army, and supported the republican government in the press.

Being always in the center of news, as a correspondent, a direct participant and as a writer, Hemingway wrote about all events in his works. The popularity of his works is based on such topics like war, love and lose. The famous writer’s works are “Winner takes nothing“, “To have and have not“, “For Whom the Bell Tolls“, “The old man and the sea” and many other.

His distinctive, precise, laconic style and great works he did made him one of the most famous writer of 20th century.

Last years

Hemingway suffered from a number of serious diseases, including hypertension and diabetes. He also had the deep depressions, which he tried unsuccessfully treated in specialized clinics.

July 2, 1961 at his home in Ketchum, a few days after leaving a psychiatric clinic, Hemingway shot himself with a favorite shotgun.