AUTHOR INTRODUCTION

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now in
Oak Park), Illinois. He served in World War I and worked in journalism
before publishing his story collection In Our Time.

 He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A

Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man
and the Sea.
 He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing
and for adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct
and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on
American and British fiction in the 20th century.
LITERARY BACKGROUND

Cat in the Rain is a short story by American author Ernest

Hemingway(1899-1961), first published by Richard Hadley in the
short story collection In Our Time.

 The story is about an American man and wife on vacation in

Italy.
 According to the book Hemingway’s Cats, Hemingway wrote
the story as a tribute to his wife Hadley. The couple had been
married a few years , and lived in Paris where she was left
alone for hours at a time while her husband worked. She
asked for a cat but he told her they were too poor. When she
became pregnant , he wrote Cat in the Rain.