“Sometimes, when I started a new story and couldn't get it started, I would look out at the rooftops of Paris and think, “Don't worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write about a true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know” (shmoop.com). Ernest Hemingway was an honest and noble man. His life was marked by his successful writing career which brought him fame, fortune, but ultimately loneliness. Ernest Hemingway fell into a pit of alcoholism and depression (lib.utexas.edu). It was strange that Hemingway would become so emotionally unstable after having a happy childhood, quality experiences, and a successful writing career. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899. Oak Park was the town in which Ernest spent his childhood. Ernest later added, “Oak Park was a place of wide lawns and narrow minds” (lib.utexas.edu). Life in Oak Park was a pleasant and peaceful place for Earnest. At home in Oak Park, Ernest had two loving parents, his mother Grace Hall was an opera singer and music teacher. She helped Ernest develop a love for art and literature. Ernest's father, Clarence Edmonds, was a physician and naturalist. Ernest's father helped him develop a passion for outdoor sports like hunting, fishing, and woodcrafting. Ernest also lived at home with a brother and four sisters (lib.utexas.edu). Ernest Hemingway had a strange childhood, but nothing that ever affected him too much. What is strange about his childhood is that his mother liked to play dress-up with Ernest and his sister Marcelline. Ernest's mother liked to dress them as twins. “One day they would be boys with short hair and overalls. Other days it would be girls with long hair...... middle of paper ......icide, he used her death as motivation to complete his other novel: A Farewell to Arms (lib.utexas .edu). With Ernest's new wealth, he purchased a house in Key West. He was also able to travel more, he even went on a Safari in Africa with Pauline. He also spent time in Europe in 1937 covering the Spanish Civil War for a newspaper. In Europe, he met a journalist named Martha Gelhorn. He married her shortly after, but the marriage lasted only 4 years (lib.utexas.edu). Ernest returned home to Cuba to wait for his future wife Mary Welsh, whom he had met in Paris. They married in 1946, but that year was marked by much upheaval for Ernest and his family. The publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952 marked the end of his career. In 1954, Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for Literature, from then on everything went downhill (lib.utexas.edu)