![]() His father's 1929 suicide was disturbing, along with his first wife's father's 1903 suicide. By the time he had published "The Sun Also Rises," he had converted to Catholicism in 1927 with a second marriage. By 1924, he had returned to Paris, then traveled to Spain, Austria, and other countries. In 1922, upon returning to Toronto, he published two collections of poems and short stories. Back in the United States while recuperating, he wrote the two-part semi-autobiographical short story, which was published in 1925 as "Our Time." In 1921, he became a foreign correspondent in Paris for the "Toronto Star." While in Paris, he received his first head injury when a skylight fell on him, lacerating his forehead. For this action, he received the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery. On July 8, 1918, he was seriously wounded in both legs with shrapnel, yet helped many Italian soldiers to safety. As with many authors, his first professional writing experience was being a newspaper reporter his was with the "Kansas City Star." During World War I, he became an Italian ambulance driver as he had failed the Army's vision test. He was the editor of his high school's newspaper and yearbook. Born one of six children, his father was a physician, and his mother, a music teacher. Ernest Hemingway, an American author, received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, according to the Nobel Prize committee "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." "The "Old Man and the Sea" was published in 1952, receiving the Pulitzer Prize the same year. Nobel Prize in Literature Recipient, Pulitzer Prize Recipient. ![]()
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