Ernest Hemingway






Ernest Hemingway

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born
December 13, 1901

died
July 02, 1961

gender
male

place of birth
Oak Park, Illinois, The United States

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influences
Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt, Ivan Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, Sherwood Anderson, Pío Baroja, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Stephen Crane


about this author

Awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."
Received the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Literature for The Old Man and the Sea.




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The Old Man and the Sea The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 3.50 — 32,647 ratings — published 1950
145 editions
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The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 3.83 — 26,257 ratings — published 1926
78 editions
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A Farewell to Arms A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 3.68 — 19,476 ratings — published 1929
90 editions
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For Whom the Bell Tolls For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 3.87 — 15,281 ratings — published 1940
86 editions
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A Moveable Feast A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 4.06 — 6,763 ratings — published 1960
48 editions
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and O... The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 3.93 — 3,807 ratings — published 1961
35 editions
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The Complete Short Stories of... The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 4.34 — 2,900 ratings — published 1938
9 editions
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In Our Time In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 3.83 — 2,425 ratings — published 1925
20 editions
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The Garden of Eden The Garden of Eden
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 3.75 — 2,189 ratings — published 1986
16 editions
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To Have and Have Not To Have and Have Not
by Ernest Hemingway
avg rating 3.58 — 2,140 ratings — published 1937
32 editions
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
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