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Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. His father was a doctor and his mother was a music teacher. He began his writing career as a reporter for the Kansas city after he graduated from middle school. At the age of eighteen, he volunteered to serve as a Red Cross ambulance driver in World War I and was sent to Italy where he was badly injured by shrapnel. Hemingway later wrote A Farewell to Arms considered as his greatest novel which originated from his experience in Italy. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris as a reporter of the Toronto Daily Star. In Paris, he made friends with a group of American and English writers that include F. Scott Fitzgeral, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and Ford Madox Ford. In the early 1920s, Hemingway began to achieve fame as a chronicler of the disaffection felt by many American youth after World War I—a generation of youth whom Stein memorably dubbed the “Lost Generate”. His novels The Sun Also Rises（1926）and A Farewell to Arms (1929) established him as a dominant literary voice of his time. His spare, charged style of writing was revolutionary at the time and would be imitated, for better or for worse, by generations of aspiring young writers to come. After leaving Paris, Hemingway wrote on bullfighting, published short stories and articles, covered the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, and published his best-selling novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). These pieces helped Hemingway build up the mythic breed of masculinity for which he wished to be known. Hunting, fishing, boxing and bullfighting were part of his life, and he tried to do these things as seriously as he did writing. In the 1930s, Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, and later in Cuba, and his years of experience fishing in the Gulf Stream and the Caribbean provided an essential background for the vivid descriptions of the fisherman’s craft in The Old Man and the Sea. In 1936, he wrote a piece for Esquire about a Cuba fisherman who was dragged out to