But I learned some interesting facts from this article, including:
-George Orwell actually fought in Spain, until Hemingway.
-Hemingway's dispatches were mostly fictional.
-He wrote a play years later where he clearly puts himself in the place of a hunky spy pretending to be a war correspondent.
As to the mystery of why Hemingway killed himself: he collapsed under his own ego. I see this so often with men who paint themselves as larger than life, but there's nothing about them that his large. All there is just facade, there's nothing even so wonderful behind it.
I would also note it's pretty telling that Hemingway's father killed himself. Suicides have an unfortunate habit of running in families (Kurt Cobain, the infamous musician, was the fifth suicide in his family.)
