Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allen Poe

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, journalist, writer of short stories, and winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature. He created a distinguished body for prose fiction; much of which was based on his adventurous life.

Hemingway was the second of six children of Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Upon graduation from Oak Park High School in 1917, he chose journalism instead of college and spent seven educational months as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star. Kept from the armed forces by deficient eyesight, Hemingway volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy, an experience that was later to provide the theme and locale for one of his most successful novels, A Farewell to Arms. While serving temporarily as a canteen officer along the Piave River, he was severely wounded by shrapnel on July 1918. Following recuperation in Milan, he returned home in January 1919.

Hemingway was eager to resume his former profession as a journalist, so he secured a part time job as a feature writer for the Toronto Star. In the fall of 1920 he became contributing editor of a trade journal in Chicago and there he met Hadley Richardson, who he married in September 1921. Late in 1923 he returned briefly to Toron

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Poe however, had a very serious drinking problem, and was known as an alcoholic. He did succeed, however, in forming influential literacy theories and in demonstrating mastery of the form he favored--highly musical poems and short prose narratives. He turned to fiction as a way to support himself. Despite two airplane crashes, he won the Nobel Prize for literature in absentia in 1954. In 1826 he entered the University of Virginia but stayed for only a year. This experience led to his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls, which was about the tragedy that had befallen the Spanish people. In 1960 he left Cuba for Ketchum, Idaho, where he had recently acquired a house. His next work, Across the River and Into the Trees was a love and war story. Hemingway's next work, Death in the Afternoon was an exhaustive nonfiction survey of the art and sociology of the Spanish bullfight.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was known for his poems and short fictional stories. In 1835 he became editor of the Southern Literacy Messenger and married Virginia, who was not yet 14 years old. He failed to recover fully and killed himself with a shotgun in his home. The book was published to wide acclain in 1929. In a brief obituary the Baltimore Clipper reported that Poe had died of “congestion of the brain. to, where their son John was born, but Europe still gleamed in Hemingway’s imagination as the place to be.

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