Ernest Hemingway

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born

July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States

died

July 02, 1961

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Literature & Fiction

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian fro...more Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he reported for a few months for The Kansas City Star, before leaving for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1922, he married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. The couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent, and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the 1920s "Lost Generation" expatriate community. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway's first novel, was published in 1926.

After his 1927 divorce from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. They divorced after he returned from Spanish Civil War where he had acted as a journalist, and after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls. Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940. They separated when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II; during which he was present at the Normandy Landings and liberation of Paris.

Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two plane crashes that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.(less)

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	The Old Man and the Sea 3.50 avg rating — 132,757 ratings — published 1952 — 219 editions	My rating:
	The Sun Also Rises 3.80 avg rating — 98,469 ratings — published 1926 — 116 editions	My rating:
	A Farewell to Arms 3.68 avg rating — 64,816 ratings — published 1929 — 146 editions	My rating:
	For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.86 avg rating — 55,593 ratings — published 1940 — 45 editions	My rating:
	A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 22,229 ratings — published 1964 — 94 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Short Stories 4.30 avg rating — 8,449 ratings — published 1987 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories 3.90 avg rating — 9,560 ratings — published 1938 — 49 editions	My rating:
	To Have and Have Not 3.57 avg rating — 6,051 ratings — published 1937 — 46 editions	My rating:
	In Our Time 3.79 avg rating — 5,105 ratings — published 1925 — 26 editions	My rating:
	The Garden of Eden 3.72 avg rating — 4,882 ratings — published 1986 — 27 editions	My rating:

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