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Ernest Hemingway
AuthorBooks · Second hand1899-1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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About Ernest Hemingway
Birth
1899
Death
1961
First book
1917
Years writing
44
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park and began his professional career working as a reporter.
During World War I, he enlisted as an ambulance driver on the Italian front.
His time in Paris during the 1920s was instrumental in his development as a writer.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his mastery of the art of narrative.
His most iconic work, The Old Man and the Sea, is an undisputed benchmark of 20th-century literature.
