Throughout his years, several women had entered the life of the famous writer Ernest Hemingway. Yet these same women never stayed with Hemingway long and soon abandoned him, with the exception of his last and final wife. Ernest Hemingway's love life therefore proved complex. However, each woman's time with Hemingway didn't simply end with the breakup; instead the woman's brief relationship with Hemingway served to be a great source of inspiration for the famous writer. As a result, Hemingway's depiction of women in his literary works was influenced and inspired by these various women in his life. Hemingway's first love interest who proved to be a successful source of inspiration was US Red Cross nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky. Hemingway had met Kurowsky during the World War I years in Italy, where he had served as an ambulance driver. After a serious leg injury caused by an explosion, Hemingway was admitted to hospital in Milan. It was there that Kurowsky took care of him. Hemingway had fallen in love at first sight, but that wasn't said about Kurowsky; At first the nurse did not fall in love with Hemingway. She soon formed a small relationship with the man but had never shared such deep feelings; author Donald R. Noble of the South Atlantic Review describes how Kurowsky "never uses the word love" when writing about Hemingway in his diary. Hemingway continued to write to Kurowsky even after his discharge from the hospital, but it was a single letter from the nurse herself that finally severed the relationship. Hemingway had never forgotten Kurowsky; consequently Kurowsky's influence on Hemingway thus became the inspiration for the character of Catherine in A Farewell to Arms, documenting the complexity of t...... middle of paper ......Martha Gellhorn tells of how “ dedicated the book to Gellhorn - Maria in the story was partly modeled on her. "Her hair was the golden brow of a cornfield," where Hemingway wrote about his heroine."Works Cited"Ernest Hemingway." Www.kirjasto.sci.fi. Petri Liukkonen, Ari Pesonen, Kuusankosken Kirjasto. Web. 10 March 2010. "Interview: Caroline Moorhead talks about her book on the life of Martha Gellhorn. (11:00 - 12:00 noon) (transcript broadcast)." Morning Edition October 6, 2003. General OneFile March 15, 2010. Oliver, Charles M. Ernest Hemingway A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work of New York: Facts on File, 1999. Print. “Imagining Hemingway: A Writer in His Time.”. 2010.