![]() 'A sparse, masculine, world-weary meditation on death, ideology and the savagery of war in general' Sunday Telegraph And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels. ![]() There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it' Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. ![]() He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. ![]() ![]() In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. ![]()
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