Hemingway and Other Famous Suicides

Born in 1900, Hemingway served during World War I as an ambulance driver in Italy where he saw the horrors of female factory workers blown to pieces, combat injuries, and experienced being seriously wounded himself. “Papa” became a journalist and novelist, nation hopping and rubbing shoulders with other Avant Garde type people. He covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and in 1954 on an African trip suffered injuries from 2 separate airplane crashes! Hemingway won a Nobel Prize for Literature that same year. His serious injuries left him ailing the rest of his life, compounded by heavy drinking, hypertension, headaches and depression.