Discover the extraordinary life, writing and adventures of Ernest Hemingway with Biographic: Hemingway, a visually engaging biography from the innovative Great Lives in Graphic Form series. Combining fascinating facts and figures with colourful infographics, this book offers a fresh and entertaining look at the legendary writer behind some of America''s most celebrated literature.

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was one of the defining figures of American literature. A Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner, he is best known for influential works including The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea.

But Hemingway''s life was almost as adventurous as his fiction.

Biographic: Hemingway presents 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements from his life, work and legacy in vivid visual snapshots. Discover that Hemingway worked as an ambulance driver during the First World War, suffering 227 shrapnel wounds, and that he wrote an astonishing 47 different endings to A Farewell to Arms.

His adventurous spirit extended far beyond writing. Hemingway hunted great white sharks and German U-boats with a machine gun, and remarkably survived two plane crashes within 48 hours.

Through engaging infographics and fascinating facts, this book reveals the adventurous, unconventional and influential life behind Hemingway''s words.