Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

Hemingway
Many of us know who and what Ernest Hemingway did. He was a novelist, short story writer and journalist. He was one of the big writers who influenced a lot of people in the 20th century. It is a very known fact that he served in World War one as an ambulance driver until he was wounded, moved to Paris to live with “the most interesting people in the world.” During his first 20 months in Paris, Hemingway filed 88 stories for the Toronto Star newspaper, one becoming a masterpiece known as The Sun Also Rises, and popularized the term “Lost Generation.” (lost meaning disoriented.) A recognition that there was great confusion and aimlessness among the war's survivors in the early post-war years. His adventures around the world also influenced …show more content…
Two plane crashes in 1952 in Africa had nearly killed him. He suffered from diabetes and other illnesses. In 1956, he was told to stop drinking yet consumed great quantities of liquor. He was treated at the time for high blood pressure, liver disease, and arteriosclerosis. Also Hemingway had suffered from being paranoid. He was convinced the FBI was actively monitoring his movements. He received 15 electroshock therapy by the recommendation of his physician in 1960. In 2009, the publication of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, revealed that Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel prize-winning novelist, was really being surveillanced by Edgard Hoover’s command. It also proved that the FBI were correct on their suspicion of Hemingway being a KGB spy. in 1941, Hemingway was recruited by the KGB before making a trip to China, and was given the cover name “Argo.” According to several Soviet documents, he met Soviet agents during the 1940’s in Havana and London expressing his desire and willingness to help the KGB. Although in the end, Hemingway turned out to be little of use for the Soviets, for he failed to give them any political information. A.E. Hotchner, a friend of Hemingway’s for years, explained that the writer “was afraid that the FBI was after him, that his body was disintegrating, that his friends had turned on him, that living was no longer an

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