Hemingway's Writings and Wartime ExperiencesOak Park, Illinois, greatly influenced the world of writing on July 12, 1899. For this day -there, Grace Hemingway, the wife of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, gave birth to the world of writing a little boy named Ernest Miller Hemingway (Young 82 years old). Later in his life, he would make the most powerful literary impact on the new generation of American writers with his simple, factual yet evocative style (Morris 863). No one in America will ever influence the world of writing like Hemingway. From a young age, it was obvious to those around him that Hemingway was truly something special. Many marveled at how he was able to create such a dynamic story. Few people knew at the time that the majority of his ideas for his writing came from his own personal experiences. For example, he always talked about death by violence in his writings, and this came to him through hunting trips with his father (The Cycle of American Literature 200). The violence he witnessed in the fields with his father influenced him enough to write a detailed history of this behavior. The events that occurred throughout Hemingway's life allowed him to write short stories unimaginable to the average person. Throughout Ernest's life, one of the most influential aspects was his wartime experiences. They included World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and a hostile confrontation with Fidel Castro. Due to his involvement in these many wars, Hemingway endured more scars than any other man in or out of uniform (Rusche 1). During World War I, he chose the American Ambulance Corps for his war experience. Despite his life-threatening injury during World War I...... middle of paper ....... New York: Macmillan Publishing Company Inc., 1974. Stirling, Nora. Who wrote the modern classics? New York: The John Day Company, 1970. “The Hemingway Code.” Cyberschool experimental web server. April 13, 2000. Théodoracopulos, Taki. “Put on the Ritz.” National Review November 7, 1994: 80-81. Unger, Leonard, ed. “Ernest Hemingway.” American Writers. Flight. 2. New York: Charles Scribners's Sons, 1974. 247-269. " War ". Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th edition. 1993. Weeks, Robert p., ed. Hemingway. Englewood Cliff, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962. “The World Wars.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 15th edition. 1993. Young, Philippe. “Hemingway, Ernest.” American Encyclopedia. International edition. 1990.