Ernest Hemingway Accomplishments

Literature was booming in the 1920s, with Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald at the forefront of writing books, and Gertrude Stein as a poet, novelist and playwright. Many new up and coming literary geniuses were arising in the 1920s. This time period brought about a period of lively culture with people having lavish parties; it also brought new technologies and a mass-consumption economy. But let’s focus on Ernest Hemingway, who was certainly a jack of all trades, writing many books and serving in the Italian army during World War I as an ambulance driver. He was also a deep sea fisherman in Florida and a big-game hunter in Africa, to bullfighting in Spain, and was even being an American correspondent during World War II, being present
He received many awards for doing all that he did. For his service in World War I for the Italian side, he was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery in 1918 (“Ernest Hemingway.” Biography.com). In 1954, he was awarded the Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters on his return in march of this year. Following him receiving the Award of Merit, he was given another award, but this one was in July and Cuba gave Hemingway this award. The Award he was given from Cuba was the highest honor that they were able to grant someone with. He was still given another award that puts all of the others to shame. “In November he became the sixth American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.” But since he was “unable to attend the presentation ceremony due to illness, he sent a characteristically terse acceptance statement: "A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it” ("Ernest Hemingway." American Decades). Ernest Hemingway’s accomplishments are truly the accomplishments that everyone hopes to achieve but never do. His works were certainly able to influence America and the world because he was awarded such high awards to show that he is qualified enough to shape the culture and literature of the United States. The thing that is amazing is that the highest level of education was a high school education in Illinois. In addition to all of these accomplishments, he had some important actions that helped get him to receiving all of the awards explained above. When he spent some time in Paris, he made some relationships that allowed him to have such a great impact on the world of literature. His friendships include “writers Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Archibald MacLeish and with editors Ernest Walsh and Ford Madox Ford of, respectively, This Quarter and Transatlantic Review” ("Ernest