Earnest Hemmingway
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When you look at Ernest Hemingway's life you may think of him as a person who has wasted their life. He loved to fistfight and cause squabbles, and he never saw an alcoholic drink he said no to. But when you see the inside of Ernest Hemingway you see a man who thought of literature as a sacred place and stove to master the art of writing stories.
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Hill Park, Illinois. Hemingway was the second of six children; he had four sisters and one brother. He lived in an upper-class suburban area of Chicago, only 10 miles from the city. Although he was close to the city his town tried to separate themselves from the city's ambiance. As a child the Hemingway's stayed on Walloon Lake in Northern Michigan. As he grew he found that this atmosphere created peace was a corner stone in his story writing. Although he often lived is cities early in his career (Chicago, Toronto and Paris) he moved to more isolated places (such as Key West, San Francisco de ,Cuba, and Ketchum, Idaho, and Paula)when he became successful...