upon considering Earnest Hemingway for my "psychological profile" final project (for psychology) I was astounded with the fact that I have not read any of his books; I was also astounded that he was overly masculine because his mom dressed him up like a girl when he was little, but w.e. we all have weird parents. I am proud to say, after school I quickly drove to my local library (from which I just received an ADULT library card prematurely). I then took out "The Old Man and the Sea", a book of short stories (both by hemingway) and a biography of him. Hemingway adopted his father's outdoors-man hobbies of hunting, fishing and camping in the woods and lakes of Northern Michigan (as you can see by his beard). He biased his writing on the quote "use short sentances. use short first paragraphs. use vigorous english. be positive, not negative"; and his early works sold surprisingly well. This success elicited some crude and pretentious behavior from him, even in these formative years of his career. For example, he began to tell F. Scott Fitzgerald how to write; he also claimed that the novelist Ford Maddox Ford was sexually impotent. The book "The Old Man and the Sea" in which I am almost a third through with, won the pulitzer prize in 1953. Sadly, Ernest Hemingway committed suicide in his cabin in Ketchum, Idaho; after an attempted suicide in early '61 destroyed his memory. Hemingway is one of the most prolific writers to grace the 20th century. He went out with a literal bang when he rested the barrel of a shot gun to his forehead the morning of July 2nd.
