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Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway works Hemingways affair with an American nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, during his hospital recuperation gave basis for the novel A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1929). After the war Hemingway worked for a short time as a journalist in Chicago. He moved in 1921 to Paris, where wrote articles for the?Toronto Star.?If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then whenever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Hemingways first books, THREE STORIES AND TEN POEMS (1923), of which he received no advance at all, and IN OUR TIME (1924), were published in Paris. THE TORRENTS OF SPRING (1926) was a parody of Sherwood Andersons style. Hemingways first serious novel was THE SUN ALSO RISES (1926). After the publication of MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (1927), Hemingway returned to the United States.In Florida he wrote A Farewell to Arms, which was published in 1929. Its scene is the Italian front in World War I, where two lovers find a brief happiness. The novel gained enormous critical and commercial success. In 1930s Hemingway wrote such major works as DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON (1932), a nonfiction account of Spanish bullfighting, and THE GREEN HILL OF AFRICA (1935), a story of a hunting safari in East Africa. TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1937) was made into a film by the director Howard Hawks. One of Hemingways most frequently anthologized short stories is The Snows of Kilimanjaro, first published in?Esquire?in August 1936. With TO WHOM THE BELLS TOLL (1940) Hemingway returned again in Spain. He dedicated to book to Gellhorn-Maria in the story was partly modelled after her. Her hair was the golden brow of a grain field, Hemingway wrote of his heroine. The story covered only a few days and concerned the blowing up of a bridge by a small group of partisans. When the heroine in?A Farewell to Arms?dies at the end of the story, after giving birth to a stillborn child, now it is time for the hero, Robert Jordan, to