Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was a mediocre author from the early 20th century. He was part of the modernist and realist movements. He wrote sparse sentences without embellishment.
Hemingway briefly served in World War I as an ambulance driver in Italy and was wounded. He was a war correspondent afterwards, reporting on the Greek defeats in Smyrna and Thrace at the end of their war with Turkey in the early 1920s.
Hemingway's first two marriages were to wealthy women so he could spend his time binge drinking and pursuing various macho diversions like camping, hunting, fishing, and watching bullfights. In Paris he spent his time befriending artists and writers, including the fascist, antisemitic poet Ezra Pound. He also lived in Spain, Key West, Cuba, Wyoming, Idaho, and Africa.
In 1961 he killed himself, possibly having something to do with his chronic alcoholism and repeated traumatic brain injuries.
Hemingway's brand of toxic masculinity became wildly popular in western culture and persists to this day. His short stories and novels are part of the curriculum at many public schools and universities.
