Earnest Hemingway was born in Oak park, a small town (1)__________ the state of Illinois. As a boy he was often taken on frequently hunting and fishing trips (2)__________ his father to Michigan, the locale of many his stories, and (3)__________ he soon got acquainted with the life of the Indians and such virtues as courage and endurance, (4)__________ were later revealed in his fiction. After school Hemingway (5)__________ as a newspaper reporter and then joined a volunteer ambulance unit (6)__________ in World War I. After the war he came home (7) __________a hero. He lived for several years in Paris after that. He joined a group of expatriated American writers who considered (8)__________ a lost generation. In Paris he published "Three Stories and Ten Poems" (1923) and "In Our Time" (1924) (9)__________ his own experiences of life are revealed, and which brought him (10)__________ immediately.