“I rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms, the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied. Getting the words right.”
About Ernest Hemingway
21 July 1899–2 July 1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb west of Chicago, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He became one of the most recognizable writers of the twentieth century: novelist, short-story master, journalist, war correspondent, celebrity, sportsman, and, in his…