Ernest Hemingway and Edgar Allen Poe

Ernest Hemingway 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 …

…in demonstrating mastery of the form he favored--highly musical poems and short prose narratives. Virginia died on January 1847 he was very upset but continued to write. In the summer of 1849 he revisited Richmond to lecture, and was reunited with the fiancée he had lost in 1826. After his return north he was found unconscious on a Baltimore street. In a brief obituary the Baltimore Clipper reported that Poe had died of “congestion of the brain.”