“The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry.”

Arguing that poetry proved unusually capable of preserving truthful testimony during the First World War · Introduction, Men at War, 1942

Ernest Hemingway

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…

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