Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. At seventeen he left home to join the Kansas City Star as a reporter, then volunteered to serve in the Red Cross during World War I. He was severely wounded at the Italian front and was awarded the Croce di Guerra. He moved to Paris in 1921, where he devoted himself to writing fiction, and where he fell in with the expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. His novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), To Have and Have Not (1937), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961 Carlos Baker was the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University from 1953 to his retirement in 1977. He authored many books of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, and his biography, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, was a worldwide bestseller. Baker died in 1987Hemingway, Ernest is the author of 'Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961', published 2003 under ISBN 9780743246897 and ISBN 0743246896.