biography

=﻿__Biography__= ===Earnest Hemingway was born in 1899. He was raised in Oak Park, Illinois which is a suberb of Chicago. He went to school in the Oak Park public school. He played football, swimming, water basketball and was the manager of the track team. He also worked on the school newspaper called the //Trapeze.// He graduated in 1917 and didn't go to college. Instead he got a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City //Star.//=== ===Hemingway eventually wanted to serve in World War I. He tried to join the army but was turned away because of an eye defect. Instead he joined the Red Cross ambulance corps and was sent to the Italian front. Before his 19th birthday he was wounded and recovered in the hospital in Milan, Italy. After the war he went to Paris to try to establish himself as a writer. In Paris he befriended many American artists and writers. Many of these people and the war helped shape his view of the world and gave him material for his writing.=== ===﻿ In 1925 he published his first major work, //In Our Time.// A year later he wrote and published //The Sun Also Rises.// He became famous for his writing and the way he lived. He went to bullfights in Spain and hunted in Africa. He even participated in amateur boxing. In Another Country was published in 1927. //A Farwell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls,// and //The Old Man and the Sea// earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.===