by Adelin (Dec 21, 2005)

He was born on July 21st, 1899, in Chicago. His father was a doctor, a hunter and a fisherman whereas his mother was a musician. Like his father, he loved fishing and he loved relating his hobbies. In this manner, he became a journalist at the "Kansas City Star".

In 1917, he entered "The Red Cross" and he became an ambulanceman in the Italian front. At the age of 18, he was hurt and hospitalised in Milan. He felt in love with his nurse and he wrote A farewell to Arms, published in 1929. Back to the USA, he married Hadley Richardson but he wanted to return to Europe. In 1920, he came to Paris, where he wrote a lot: "Three stories and ten poems" (1923), "In our time" (1925), "The sun also rises" (1926) whose hero, crushed by a high-explosive shell, spends his time thinking. 

In May 1925, he met Fitzgerald in Paris, with whom he became friend. 

After his father's suicide, he moved to Key West, in Florida, in 1930 and wrote "Death in the afternoon". In 1936, he went to Spain and entered the Republican Army. He drew his inspiration from that time to write: "The snows of Kilimandjaro" (1936), "To have and have not "(1937), "For whom the bell tolls" (1940). He still moved to a big house in The Havana, but he came back rapidly to Paris in 1944. In 1950, he wrote his last love story : "Beyond the river and behind the trees". Then, he wrote "The old man and the sea" (1952), before getting the Nobel Price in 1954.
Unfortunately, he committed suicide on July 2nd 1961.

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