Every time I pick up his book and read it, I have to admit that the strong power of those vivid words directly penetrates to my soul and immediately chases away my gloomy mood.
He was born and raised in America.
He wrote news stories that were primarily about sports in high school.
He went to Kansas City(堪萨斯市) and found a job as a journalist in order to gain experience.
Newspaper work helped him to polish his writing skills as he had to learn how to write a simple declarative sentence.
He joined the army and went overseas in World War I.
As he sustained an injury during the battle, he was hospitalized in Milan where he met his girlfriend, a nurse who later left him for another man, but, with deep sadness, he wrote his famous work, A Farewell to Arms(《别了，武器》).
With the help of his mentor, he was introduced to many great writers and artists in Paris.
He worked as a correspondent during World War II and witnessed some historic moments of the war.
He finally won the Pulitzer Prize(普利策奖) for his most well-known book, The Old Man and the Sea.
He was a Nobel laureate in literature, but, unfortunately, his mental and physical health got worse with each passing day because of his various old injuries that almost showed no sign of recovery.
After suffering from depression and bad health condition for a long time, he committed suicide on July 2, 1961.
He said: “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools.”
Do you have any idea who he is?
If you can’t figure out his name, here the answer is
欧内斯特·米勒尔·海明威（Ernest Miller Hemingway）
