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Ernest Hemingway

July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. During this time Hemingway met, and was influenced by, writers and artists of the 1920s expatriate community known as the "Lost Generation". In 1924 Hemingway wrote his first novel, The Sun Also Rises.

In the late 1920s, Hemingway divorced Hadley, married his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer, and moved to Key West, Florida. In 1937 Hemingway went to Spain as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War. After the war he divorced Pauline, married his third wife Martha Gellhorn, wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, and moved to Cuba. Hemingway covered World War II in Europe and he was present at Operation Overlord. Later he was in Paris during the liberation of Paris. After the war, he divorced again, married his fourth wife Mary Welsh Hemingway, and wrote Across the River and Into the Trees. Two years later, The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952. Nine years later, after moving from Cuba to Idaho, he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.

Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid 1920s and the mid 1950s, though a number of unfinished works were published posthumously. Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature. During his lifetime, Hemingway's popularity peaked after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. [1]

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Fiction, History, Correspondence, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, Ficción, In library, World War, 1914-1918, Biography, Social life and customs, Americans, Authors, Bullfights, American Authors, American Novelists, Drama, Fiction in English, Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918, Big game hunting, Homes and haunts, Large type books, Fishers, Hunting, Older men, Spain Civil War, 1936-1939
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Spain, Paris (France), Kenya, Cuba, France, United States, Paris, Caribbean Area, Caribe (Región), París (Francia), Italy, Africa, Bahamas, Bimini Islands (Bahamas), Caribbean Sea, East Africa, Florida, Gulf of Florida, Michigan, Milan, Pamplona, Riviera (France), Spanien, The Battle of Caporetto, Trieste
People
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Antonio Ordóñez Araujo (1932-), Luis Miguel Dominguín (1926-), Ernest Hemingway, A. E. Hotchner, Antonio Ordóñez Araujo (1932-1998), Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961), General Francisco Franco, John C. Schweitzer, Maxwell E. Perkins (1884-1947)
Time
20th century, Civil War, 1936-1939, 1920's, Early 20th century, 1920s, 1930's, 1940's, 1950s, 1951-1980, Alfonso XIII, 1886-1931, Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

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