Hemingway and "In Our Time"

This book discusses the major themes of Ernest Hemingway's collection of short stories, "In Our Time." The main stories focused on include "Indian Camp," "Cat in the Rain," "The Big-Hearted River," and "The End of Things." This book also discusses the definition of Hemingway's Code Hero. Examples of the code hero are given from Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises an... This book also considers the factors that resulted in the so-called Lost Generation.Ernest Hemingway was born in a suburb of Chicago. He was educated in the public schools and began to write in high school, where he was active and outstanding. The parts of his boyhood that mattered most to him were summers spent with his family on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan. Ernest Hemingway, in full Ernest Miller Hemingway, (born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, US — died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho), American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.