Ernest Hemingway was fascinated by death. He actively sought out experiences that would allow him to become intimate with death and dying, from his presence on every major warfront during his ...

Even decades after his death, Ernest Hemingway remains one of America’s most famous writers. Born in Illinois on July 21, 1899, Hemingway started his literary career as a journalist. After an ...

In 1932, he journeyed to Spain to research "Death in the Afternoon," a manifesto on bullfighting that was published in Esquire and became the Bible of the sport. In 1937, Hemingway returned to ...