This famous author is…

• • James Joyce
• • Ernest Hemingway
• • William Faulkner
• • John Steinbeck

Hemingway was a newspaperman. Then he was a man of letters. He wrote in short sentences. His stories were easy to read but they ended abruptly. He loved bullfights. He loved boxing. He loved violence. Even more than violence, he loved numbness. He numbed himself by drinking. In his sixties, he was pretty well numb. He couldn’t snap out of it. He shot himself.