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Born on July 21, 1899 at Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago, Ernest Hemingway, under the influence of his father who was a successful physician with a relish for hunting and fishing, loved the outdoors from childhood. His mother was a singer and a music teacher. Both parents expected their son to excel and he complied. He was an excellent student at high school and loved athletic competitions such as football and boxing, and became interested in journalism. He did run away from home twice and observed once that the best training for a writer is an unhappy childhood. After graduation from Oak Park High School in 1917, he chose not to go to college. Instead he left home and worked briefly for the Star as a reporter in Kansas City. The short simple sentences characteristic of his prose style might have come from such experience. When America entered World War I in 1917, he tried to enlist in the army, but was rejected because of his bad eye which he had injured while learning boxing. Then he was recruited as an ambulance driver working with the Red Cross and went to Europe. Shortly after he arrived the front in Italy, about three weeks, he was wounded on both legs and sent to an Italian hospital. During his six-month stay in the hospital, he fell in love with an English nurse. His war experience proved so shattering and nightmarish that his life and writings were permanently affected. In a sense, all his life he lived with it emotionally and continued to write about it in order to relive it and forget about it. After the war, he, together with his first wife Hadley Richardson, went to Paris as a foreign reporter, employed by The Toronto Star. Influenced and guided by Sherwood Anderson, Stephen Crane, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, he became a writer and began to attract attention. It remains a fact that he did benefit not a little from their schooling. For him Anderson was a guide in style, and for Gertrude Stein, Hemingway himself acknowledged that he learned eve