Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899, to Clarence and Grace Heming-way. His father was a doctor and his mother a musician who had given up her career to care for the couple's six children.
Hemingway's early life was an upper-middle class, comfortable existence. He and his family spent summers at their cottage in northern Michi-gan. He graduated from high school and went to work as a reporter, a career he continued on and off for the rest of his life.
The comfortable life ended, however, in 1918, when Hemingway volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver to do service on the front lines of World War I in Europe. While in Italy, just before his nineteenth birthday, he was severely wounded while helping to rescue another wounded man. The experiences.....
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