He became paranoid and on 1 July 1961 Ernest Miller Hemingway committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun. In 1954 he returned to Spain and he won the Nobelprize for his book `The Old Man and the Sea`.

In 1945 he returned to Cuba and there he married his fourth wife Mary Welsh a year later. He became an unofficial officer but with his company he was the first to march into the French capital Paris. He was one of the firsts to arrive on the beaches in Normandy. In 1944 he accepted a commission to report the war in Europe. In 1940 he married his third wife, Martha Gellhorn. In 1936 Hemingway moved to Spain because he was afraid that Adolf Hitler would invade France. He went to Spain again together with her during the Civil War and there he wrote his best seller `For Whom the Bells Tolls`, and in the following year they went to Key West, Florida. But in 1926 Hemingway divorced her and in May 1927 he married Pauline Pfeiffer. In September 1925 he completed his book `Fiesta`, which was dedicated to his wife and his son. In 1923 the Hemingways returned to Canada for the birth of their son in October and Ernest worked again for the Toronto Star. In 1923 he went on a short tour of Spain. In January 1922 they moved to Paris where Hemingway dedicated himself totally to writing literature. He returned to America in 1919 and in 1920 he took a job with the Toronto Star, where he met Elizabeth Richardson. In May 1918 Hemingway joined the US Army as an ambulance driver on the front in Italy, where he was badly wounded but twice decorated for his services. In 1917 after leaving school he joined the Kansas City Star as a reporter. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. First published in 1952, this hugely popular tale confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, America. Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of adversity and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent 20th-century classic. The story of a down-on-his-luck Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal-a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream-has been cherished by generations of readers. The last of his novels Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved and popular novel ever, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, now featuring a previously unpublished short story and additional supplementary material-plus a personal foreword by the author’s only living son, Patrick Hemingway, and an introduction by the author’s grandson Seán Hemingway.

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