1974. pp. 2-17) All children in this family were taught music and were taken to concerts and art galleries. From his father Ernest inherited love to nature and skills to buildErnest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Chicago in the house of his grand father. There were six children in his family and he was the second among them. He had a rather nice life on the shore of Bear Lake, where he caught his first fish being only three years old. At this age he was described so by his mother: “...He counts up to 100, can spell by ear very well. He likes to build cannons and forts with building blocks. He collects cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War. He loves stories about Great Americans - can give you good sketches of all the great men of American History”. (Unger, Leonard (Ed.). American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. pp. 2-17) All children in this family were taught music and were taken to concerts and art galleries. From his father Ernest inherited love to nature and skills to build nice life on the shore of Bear Lake, where he caught his first fish being only three years old. At this age he was described so by his mother: “...He counts up to 100, can spell by ear very well. He likes to build cannons and forts with building blocks. He collects cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War. He loves stories about Great Americans - can give you good sketches of all the great men of American History”. (Unger, Leonard (Ed.). American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. pp. 2-17) All children in this family were taught music and were taken to concerts and art galleries. From his father Ernest inherited love to nature and skills to buildby ear very well. He likes to build cannons and forts with building blocks. He collects cartoons of the Russo-Japanese War. He loves stories about Great Americans - can give you good sketches of all the great men of American History”. (Unger, Leonard (Ed.). American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. pp. 2-17) All children in this family were taught music and were taken to concerts and art galleries. From his father Ernest inherited love to nature and skills to buildgood sketches of all the great men of American History”. (Unger, Leonard (Ed.). American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, vol. 2. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. pp. 2-17) All children in this family were taught music and were taken to concerts and art galleries. From his father Ernest inherited love to nature and skills to build 1974. pp. 2-17) All children in this family were taught music and were taken to concerts and art galleries. From his father Ernest inherited love to nature and skills to build fire or to cook. He was taught to be physically and morally strong. He knew how to handle guns and his first shotgun he got when he was ten. He killed himself with the gun fifty one years later. He was a rather strong man with strong principles, he believed that “life was a tragedy and it could have only one end” (Baker, Carlos. Hemingway: The Writer as Artist. Princeton University Press, 1952 pp.10-12).

After graduating from the High School he worked as a reporter for Kansas City Star. During World War| he was an ambulance driver. The love affair between an ambulance driver and a nurse is described in his work A Farewell to Arms. During the Spanish Civil War he worked as a correspondent on the l