Hemingway, Ernest [Miller]
Hemingway, Ernest [Miller]( 1899–1961),born in Illinois, while attending school made frequent hunting and fishing expeditions in northern Michigan, which helped condition his later primitivistic attitude. After working as a Kansas City reporter, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in France, then transferred to the Italian infantry until the close of World War I, after which he reported battles in the Near East for the Toronto Star, and settled in Paris as a member of the expatriate group.
Influenced by Ezra Pound and particularly by Gertrude Stein, whose style strongly affected him, he published Three Stories & Ten Poems (Paris, 1923) and In Our Time (U.S., 1925). These early stories already exhibited the attitude of mind and technique for which he later became famous. As the leading spokesman for the “lost generation” he expressed the feelings of a war-wounded people disillusioned by the loss of faith and...
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