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1. Author: Ernest Hemingway


 * 1) Ernest Hemingway loved the outdoors when he was little.
 * 2) He used to go hunting and camping when he was little.
 * 3) Hemingway volunteered for war work and was wounded on the Italian front in 1918, the basis for his first major book A Farewell to Arms.
 * 4) Ernest Hemingway was a legend in his own life-time.
 * 5) he was in a few different wars.
 * 6) He spent the summers with his family in the woods of northern Michigan, where he often accompanied his father on professional calls.
 * 7) He ran away from home twice.
 * 8) However, his first real chance for escape came in 1917, when the United States entered World War I.
 * 9) He volunteered for active service in the infantry but was rejected because of eye trouble.
 * 10) Hemingway wrote To Have and Have Not (1937) in response to the 1930s depression.
 * 11) Seventeen months after that war ended, Hemingway completed For Whom the Bell Tolls.
 * 12) In World War II he witnessed some of the bloodiest battles in Europe.
 * 13) Although he served in no official capacity, he commanded a personal battalion of over 200 troops and was granted the respect and privileges normally accorded a general.
 * 14) At this time he received the affectionate appellation of "Papa" from his admirers, both military and literary.
 * 15) In 1950 he ended his literary silence with Across the River and into the Trees.
 * 16) The Old Man and the Sea, immediately hailed a masterpiece, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He killed himself with a shotgun on July 2, 1961.

Ernest Hemingway Quotes 1. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. 2. A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. 3. All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. 4. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. 5. All our words from loose using have lost their edge. 6. All things truly wicked start from innocence. 7. As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. 8. Courage is grace under pressure. 9. Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. 10. Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

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1. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1898. 2. His father was a country physician who taught his son hunting and fishing 3. He spent the summers with his family in the woods of northern Michigan, where he often accompanied his father on professional calls. 4. The discovery of his father's apparent lack of courage, later depicted in the short story "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," and his suicide several years later left the boy with an emotional scar. 5. Hemingway enlisted in the Red Cross medical service, driving an ambulance on the Italian front. 6. He was badly wounded in the knee yet carried a wounded man on his back a considerable distance to the aid station. 7. After having over two hundred shell fragments (parts of bullets) removed from his legs and body, Hemingway next enlisted in the Italian infantry, served on the Austrian front until the armistice (truce), and was decorated for bravery by the Italian government. 8. Hemingway soon returned home where he was hailed as a hero. 9. In 1923 Hemingway published his first book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. 10.Hemingway revealed his passionate interest in bull-fighting in Death in the Afternoon (1932), a humorous and unique nonfiction study. 11. Hemingway's African safari in 1934 provided the material for another nonfiction work, The Green Hills of Africa (1935), as well as two of his finest short stories, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." 12. In 1952 The Old Man and the Sea was published. A novella (short novel) about an extraordinary battle between a tired old Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. A year later, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. 13. Hemingway's declining physical condition and increasingly severe mental problems drastically reduced his literary output in the last years of his life. 14. A journey to Africa planned by the author and his wife in 1954 ended in their plane crash over the Belgian Congo. Hemingway suffered severe burns and internal injuries from which he never fully recovered. Additional strain occurred when the revolutionary Cuban government of Fidel Castro (1926–) forced the Hemingways to leave Finca Vig&iacute;a. 15. Many of Hemingway's unpublished and unfinished works were published after his death. Because of his amazing body of work, and his intense approach to life, Hemingway was arguably one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century.

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 * 1) Ernest Hemingway played a major role in defining twentieth-century American literature, but his life, art, and image are so deeply intertwined that it is hard to separate them.
 * 2) worked as a deep sea fisherman
 * 3) went on big game safaris throughout Africa.
 * 4) He was in two plane crashes while visiting Africa and was so badly injured in one that some newspapers reported he had been killed.
 * 5) All of this and more showed up in his writing.
 * 6) Hemingway won the Italian Silver Medal for Valor for his actions in World War I.
 * 7) In the 1920s, Hemingway was part of a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris.
 * 8) Hemingway married four times, often falling for one woman while still married to another one.
 * 9) After battling depression and poor health for several years, Hemingway shot himself in 1961...just as his father had in 1928.

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 * 1) Pictured on a 25 cent US commemorative postage stamp in the literary arts series, issued july 17, 1989
 * 2) buried in ketchum idaho
 * 3) left behind 8,000 personal and business letters
 * 4) his father was a physician and his mother had trained as a singer
 * 5) when he graduated high school, his uncle helped him land a job as a reporter on the kansas city star
 * 6) he never attended college
 * 7) Ernest had a son named jack nicknamed Bumby
 * 8) Ernest spent part of each day writing, but also found time for drinking with his buddies and more fishing, sometimes off the coast of Cuba
 * 9) He won the Pulitzer prize in 1953, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

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