many of you know Ernest Hemingway as the
writer of classics like
for Whom the Bell Tolls and farewell to
arms and while those are important
influential books he lived an extremely
interesting life that deserves some time
in spotlight during this video I'm gonna
give you an idea of just how chaotic his
life was he was born July 1899 Oak Park
Illinois and high school he became known
for his athletic talents sports like
boxing which were apparently a high
school sport in 1917 he worked at a
newspaper in Kansas City and win and win
World War one broke out he became a
battlefield ambulance driver he was
wounded in battle awarded the civil
silver medal of valor but ended up in a
hospital where he fell head-over-heels
in love with his nurse he spent a lot of
time in Europe during World War one
writing war correspondents letters and
in 1919 his relationship with his nurse
ended with him being rejected which sets
a trend cell sabotage women in the
future over the next 25 years he repeats
a cycle of marriage cheating on his wife
into marrying the mistress with
intermediate hunting trips to Africa
that usually end up with him nearly
dying to disease or plane trouble in
1947 he spends a good portion of his
time hunting Nazi u-boats for fun which
is insane and earns him another medal
even though he never caught one do the
Cuban Revolution he is forced to leave
his beloved home in Cuba and after a
long bout an immense mental institution
with too much electroshock therapy he
committed suicide in 1961 I also feel it
relevant to mention that the FBI had a
huge file in Hemingway when he died and
were tapping his phone calls because he
was close friends with Fidel Castro
often supported communist revolutions
including fighting on the socialist side
of the Spanish revolution and oh yeah
worked for the KGB is a double agent in
Britain from here for nearly a decade
starting in 1938 with this busy life I
don't know how he got any writing done
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