Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born at eight o'clock in the morning in Oak Park, Illinois July 21, 1899. In the nearly sixty two years of his life that followed he forged a literary reputation unsurpassed in the twentieth century and created a mythological hero in himself that captivated and confounded not only serious literary critics but also the average man...in a word, he was a star. Born in the family home at 439 Oak Park Avenue, a …

…wounded soldier or not, doesn't diminish Hemingway's sacrifice. He was awarded the Italian Silver Medal for Valor. He returned home from Italy in January of 1919. Hemingway was a brillint novelest. He published many excellent novel such as The Old Man in the Sea. For Whom The Bell Tolls, and The Garden of Eden through his lifetime. Due to is great skills as a writer and his vast intellegence, Hemmingway was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.