... Paris with his first wife, Hadley Richardson in 1921, he became friends with the poet Ezra Pound, writer Gertrude Stein, artists Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso and other individuals who belonged to prominent writers and artists living in postwar Paris. The Sun Also Rises was published in 1926 and established Hemingway as one of the preeminent writers of his day. In this novel he writes about the lives of the members of the so-called Lost Generation, the group of men and women whose early adulthood was consumed by World War I. He also talks about these characters search for meaning in the wake of World War I and how it shattered many people's beliefs in the traditional values of love, faith, and manhood. The Old Man and the Sea, however, was written later in Hemingway's career. This novel was inspired by Hemingway's vast knowledge of the fisherman's craft and the ...

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