Ernest Hemingway  (1899-1961) A Clean, Well-Lighted Place LINKS The Papa Page http://www.netcontrol.net/themata-b/bj36/ This large site includes photos, biographical and bibliographical information, a large collection of links, and a set of frequently asked questions about Hemingway. BIOGRAPHY Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)  Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Hemingway became a cub reporter after high school. He was seriously wounded while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. After the war, he lived in Paris, a member of a lively and productive expatriate community characterized by Gertrude Stein as "a lost generation." He lived an active life, not only as a writer, but as a war correspondent, big game hunter, and fisherman. In such novels as The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), his fictional characters exhibit a passion for courage and integrity, for grace under pressure. Hemingway's spare, unembellished style reinforced his central theme that one must confront danger and live honorably. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954. In 1961, unable to write because treatment for mental instability affected his memory, he killed himself with the shotgun he had so often used as a hunter.