1. Getting the material

2. The first love

3. Creating early masterpieces

4. A bad injury

5. The years of the growing

6. Getting the Nobel Prize

7. Attempt to join the army

8. Fighting against the fascism in Spain

A. Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest American writers of his age. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in the family of a doctor. His father was fond of hunting and fishing and in his school days Ernest became an excellent sportsman. He learned to box, as a result of which his nose was broken and an eye injured. At school he was a successful pupil. He wrote poetry and prose to the school literary magazine and.edited ihe school newspaper.

B. In 1917, when the United States entered the First World War, Hemingway wanted to join the army but was refused because of his eye. Then he left home and went to Kansas City. He lived in his uncle's house and worked as a newspaper reporter.

C. In 1918, he tried to join the army again and was given the job of driving American Red Cross ambulances on the Italian front. Two months later he was badly wounded in the leg. He was taken to a hospital in Milan where he had twelve operations. Some time later he returned to the army. Hemingway was awarded a silver medal by the Italian Government. His war experiences influenced the life and all the works of the writer.

D. In 1920, Hemingway returned to the US and began to work as a foreign correspondent of a newspaper. At that time, he was earning enough to support himself by his pen and he began writing stories. His dream was to become a novelist. To get the material for his future stories and novels Hemingway travelled all over the world. He visited Spain, Switzerland, Germany and other countries.

E. His first work, "Three Stories and Ten Poems", was written in 1923. Hemingway's first novel "The Sun Also Rises" known in our country as "Fiesta", was published in 1926. Then followed his masterpiece, the novel "Farewell to Arms”, protest against war. It was published in 1929 and made the author famous. Hemingway continued to write short stories. The collection includes "The Killer", "In Another Country" and others. Here the author shows the disappointment of young people in the post-war period.

F. When the Civil war in Spain began in 1936, Hemingway collected money (140, 000 dollars) for an ambulance service in the Spanish Republic and went to Spain. He took part in the war as an anti-fascist correspondent. He met many progressive people in Spain. After the end of the Civil War in Spain Hemingway wrote one of his best novels "For Whom the Bell Tolls", where he speaks about the American, who died in the fight for the Republic in Spain.

G. The last years of his life Hemingway spent in Cuba, visiting the USA and Spain. He loved freedom and supported the revolution in Cuba and greeted the revolutionary government there. Hemingway's last work, "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952), is about the courage of an old fisherman, who was fighting a big fish and the sea for many hours and won the victory over them. In 1954 the author was awarded the Nobel prize for literature and "The Old Man and the Sea" was mentioned as one of his best work