“Sometimes, when I was starting a new story and couldn't get it going, I would stand up and look 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 an actual sentence. Write the truest sentence you know” (shmoop.com). Ernest Hemingway was an honest and noble man. His life was highlighted by his successful writing career which brought him fame, fortune, but ultimately loneliness. Ernest Hemingway fell into a hole of alcohol 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 city where Ernest spent his childhood. Ernest later went on to say, “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. In the Oak Park home Ernest had two loving parents, his mother Grace Hall was an opera singer and a music teacher. He helped Ernest develop a love of art and literature. Ernest's father, Clarence Edmonds, was a doctor and naturalist. Ernest's father helped him develop a passion for outdoor sports such as hunting, fishing and wood crafting. 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. The strange thing 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 up 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... suicide, he used her death as motivation to complete his other novel: A Farewell to Arms (lib.utexas.edu). With his new found wealth, Ernest 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. While in Europe he met a journalist named Martha Gelhorn. Shortly thereafter he married her, 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 very turbulent 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 wrong (lib.utexas.edu)