According to Wikipedia, Hemingway moved to Paris in 1921 with his first wife, Hadley, where he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s, the "Lost Generation" expatriate community. (His life there with Hadley is told in his memoir, A Moveable Feast, where he talks of the interesting people he came to know, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Ford Madox Ford, and others, including fascinating accounts of his visits with Gertrude Stein.) In 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of the rest of his life. He committed suicide in 1961 at age 61. Received a Pulitzer in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
