Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899. He was the second child in a family of six. His father was a doctor. Hemingway learned about nature, hunting, and fishing from his father when he was a child. He went to school a year younger than usual, so he had to work hard to catch up with others. In high school, he studied harder and always got the best grades. A fter leaving high school, he went to work as a reporter. During World War I, Hemingway found a job as an ambulance（ 救护车）driver.In1919,he got back home.Later that year, he started to be a writer. Then in September 1920, Hemingway moved to Chicago to live with his friends. There he worked as an editor（编辑）.
Hemingway wrote most of his works between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He wrote a short novel（小说） named The Old Man and the Sea in 1951. In 1953, he won the Pulitzer Prize for the short novel. The novel also brought Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Hemingway's language is simple, but it is rich and powerful. In the nearly sixty-two years of his life, he played an important part in literature.
