He set his drink down on the table, hard, and pulled out a chair and sat down. On the bright side, I think it did wonders for my blood pressure.” I said.ĭressed in worn khaki shorts and a Hawaiian shirt with one too many colors, he stood there at my table and squinted at me, sweat rolling down the sides of his red face and into his gray beard. “Hemingway, you wouldn't happen to be related to the writer would you? His book The Sun Also Rises was the book I was just referring to I don’t remember ever being quite so bored. “Who are you?” I asked the man I did not know. “Bring the lady some Champagne right away!” said Mr. Hemingway, how could I not? You tend to repeat yourself constantly, it must be all the absinthe….” muttered Manuel. “But you know the rules Manuel, you know the rules.” Repeated Mr. Hemingway” said Manuel “she said she wanted ice water, so that’s what I gave her”. “I just finished a book where everyone repeated themselves……drove me to drink!” “I’ll drink to that.” I said and held up my glass of ice water to the stranger, then put it to my lips and drank. He put an empty glass in front of me, tipped his picture of water over my glass until it was full, at that time he stopped pouring.Ī man I did not know walked up to my table and said to the waiter “No one in Key West is to stop drinking alcohol while they are conscious, you know the rules Manuel! Don’t make me repeat myself did you hear me? Don’t make me repeat myself, it’s annoying.” Manuel rolled his eyes. *burp*” I put my hand over my glass “I read somewhere that it can cause hallucinations and nightmares. The bar was on the beach where there was lots of sand and water. I was sitting on the patio of a bar in Key West Florida. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961. Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two plane crashes that left him in pain and ill-health for much of the rest of his life. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II during which he was present at the Normandy Landings and liberation of Paris. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They divorced after he returned from Spanish Civil War where he had acted as a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls.
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.Īfter his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent, and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, and after high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. Many of these are considered classics of American literature. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist.
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