8. The Hemingway Family
American Literature wouldn’t be the same without Ernest Hemingway. Between the mid 1920s and mid 1950s, Hemingway penned his best work, his economical style in classics like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls winning him the Nobel prize in 1954. Nevertheless, Hemingway suffered from severe depression. He killed himself with a shotgun at age 62. But Papa wasn’t he only Hemingway to suffer from clinical depression. His sister, Ursula, struggled with depression and overdosed five years after the celebrated author killed himself. Sixteen years later Leicester, Ernest’s brother, ended his life killed with a shotgun blast when he learned he’d lose both his legs due to diabetes.
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