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The best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse.

Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an intensity unrivaled in modern literature, while his description of the German attack on Caporetto, of lines of fired men marching in the rain, hungry, weary, and demoralized, is one of the greatest moments in literary history.

A story of love and pain, of loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms, written when he was 30 years old, represents a new romanticism for Hemingway.

Ernest Hemingway

Age: 61

Novelist and short story writer

Most Notable Works: A Farewell to Arms (1929), Winner Take Nothing (1933), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Method of Death: Buying a double-barrel shotgun from Abercrombie & Fitch (before it was a clothing retailer for teenagers), Hemingway pressed the end of the shotgun against his forehead, leaned over, and pulled both triggers. His suicide was three weeks after a first attempt. He died in the hallway of his house in Ketchum, Idaho.

Bizarre Twist: Hemingway often wrote about suicide – most notably in the short story “Indian Camp.” His father, two siblings, and his granddaughter (Margaux Hemingway) also committed suicide.