Everyone knows Ernest Hemingway as the manly, courageous, and sometimes-mad author during the twentieth century, but many may not know about his personal life and how that affected his writing style and themes. During his life Hemingway had four different wives. Each one of them could have had a passive influence on how he wrote and what he wrote about. That is the purpose of this project.
While married to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, Hemingway wrote The Sun Also Rises (1926), a novel about a group of people travelling around Spain. During his marriage to his second wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, he wrote A Farewell to Arms (1929), which is about a World War I ambulance driver who falls deeply and truly in love with a British nurse. Then, while Hemingway was married to Martha Gellhorn, he published the magnificent book about the Spanish Civil War titled For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Finally his fourth and final wife, Mary Welsh, and he were married in 1946 and during this time our author wrote Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), about an older man and a younger woman who are in love in the Italian city of Venice.