In that year he divorced Hadley Richardson and married Pauline Pfieffer. In 1928 they moved to Key West, where they had two sons. 1928 was a year of both success and sorrow for Hemingway; in this year, A Farewell to Arms was published and his father Clarence Hemmingway committed suicide (Resource Center).
In addition to personal experience with war and death, Hemingway's widespread travel, hunting and other sports provided material for his novels. Bullfighting inspired Death in the Afternoon, published in 1932. In 1934, Hemingway went on safari in Africa, which gave him new themes and scenes for The Snows of Kaliamanjaro and The Green Hills of Africa, published in 1935. After his divorce from Pauline in 1940, Hemingway married Martha Gelhorn, who was also a writer (Resource Center).
During World War Two Hemingway volunteered his boat and served with the U.S Navy as a submarine spotter in the Caribbean. In 1944, he traveled through Europe with the Allies as a war journalist and participated in the liberation of Paris. Hemingway divorced again in 1945, and married Mary Welsh, also a journalist for Time magazine, in 1946 (Resource Center).
Hemingway survived two plane crashes in Africa in 1954. In 1960, Hemingway moved to Ketchum, Idaho, where he was hospitalized for uncontrolled high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes and depression. On July,1961, Hemingway used a shotgun to commit suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (Bloom, novelists, 12).
Ernest Hemingway has written a variety of novels, short-story and essays. Hemingway's fiction usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives of soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighter who meet the pain and difficulty of their survival with courage.
Hemingway's first books, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) and In Our Time (1924), were published in Paris. The Torrents Of Spring appeared in 1926 and Hemingway's first serious novel, The Sun Also Rises, on the same year.