Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. After graduating from high school, he worked briefly as a newspaper reporter, before volunteering as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I.
He later was severely wounded in this war after he transferred to the infantry.
After the war, he moved to Paris and was influenced by Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein.
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first critically acclaimed novel.
Biography
Hemingway spent time in Key West, Florida, Spain, and Africa after 1927.
He was a war correspondent from 1936-1939 during the Spanish Civil War.
