"Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career after graduating from High School as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. He tried to enlist in the army at 18 but was deferred because of poor vision and before the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, and was awarded a metal by the Italian Government, and spent most of his time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers. In September 1921, he married Hadley Richardson she was one of four other wives that Hemingway would have throughout his life. He had three sons one by Hadley and two by Pfeiffer.
Hemingway was a great sportsman and liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters, tough as nails people in his stories. …