Hemingway is well known as a man of prodigious appetites--for food, alcohol, travel, celebrity, rage, and most of all for beautiful, intelligent, exciting women. Hemingway married four times and sired three sons. As well as his love for his wives--amateur pianist Hadley Richardson,
Vogue reporter and heiress Pauline Pfeiffer, war correspondent and novelist Martha Gellhorn, and journalist Mary Welsh--he had emotional entanglements with Red Cross nurse Agnes von Kurowsky, artist Jane Mason, and Venetian aristocrat Adriana Ivancich. Not since Lord Byron has a man of letters led so romantic an existence.
The exciting truths of Hemingway's life make it easy to forget that his most vital achievement involved the very quiet business of setting pen to paper. Hemingway 's contribution to American literature was substantial, and today he is best remembered for four novels, The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), and for the short stories collected in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Of these, "Big Two-Hearted River," "The Killers," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" are among the most read, taught, and criticized stories in the English language.
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