Ernest Hemingway
Biography
After graduating high school, he went to work for the Kansas City Star for about six months. He never did attend college.
In 1918 served in World War 1 as an ambulance driver. While there, he met a nurse who he soon proposed to. Though she left him for another man, this experience helped him in writing a Farewell to Arms.
He also won a Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
Throughout his life, he wrote over 8,000 letters.
Even before committing suicide, he came close to death through World War 1, four car crashes, and two plane crashes.
He ended his life by shooting himself, but a close friend of his has said Hemingway tried killing himself by walking into a plane propeller.
The most amazing thing he hunted, was sharks.
Up to his death, Hemingway had believed that he was being watched and monitored. After his passing it was discovered that he indeed was. The FBI kept an open file on him.
Hemingway was never able to pronounce the letter L.