A long time ago lived a man called Ernest Hemingway. He was against fascism before America was. He fought fascists with real weapons before America and Russia destroyed the Nazis. His artistic peers of the Lost generation included Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, e. e. cummings, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and those of the Dadaist movement.
The Lost Generation is the generation that lived through the First World War. Ernest Hemingway fought in the First World War. He was injured and sent home back to Michigan. From this experience he wrote “ A Farewell To Arms.” (1929) A heart wrenching tale about an injured soldier who falls in love with his nurse only to see her die in giving birth to a miscarriage.
Dedicated to writing as craft he wrote from the perspective of a common man chasing after truth. His design was for any man or woman to enjoy his writing while employing a technique of greatness to win the approval of the harsh critics. His writing was always based on his own personal experience and became the standard for authors who came after him. His subjects include travel, fishing, women, bullfighting, camaraderie, hunting trips, and war.
Back in Michigan after World War I he found his stories about the war were a hit wherever he told them and he began to embellish his stories in attempts to continue others' approval. He received the drift that the place for art was Paris and moved there. He won the approval of the matriarch of art of the Lost Generation, Gertrude Stein. From the camaraderie of the artists he lived amongst in Paris he wrote The Sun Also Rises. (1926)
The Spanish civil war was an inspiration to Hemingway and he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. (1940) Later he wrote Old Man and the Sea. (1952) For this novel he won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize, "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”, leaving him to retire in Ketchum, Idaho.
