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Ernie Pyle

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born

August 03, 1900 in Dana, Indiana , The United States

died

April 18, 1945

genre

Nonfiction, Travel

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Ernest Taylor Pyle was an American journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent for the Scripps Howard newspaper chain from 1935 until his death in combat during World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944.

His articles, about the out-of-the-way places he visited and the people who lived there, were written in a folksy style, much like a personal letter to a friend. He enjoyed a following in some 300 newspapers.

On April 18, 1945, Pyle died on Ie Shima, an island off Okinawa, after being hit by Japanese machine-gun fire.

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Books by Ernie Pyle

Average rating: 4.34 · 307 ratings · 48 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Brave Men by Ernie Pyle, G. Kurt Piehler (Introduction) 4.34 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1944 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle, Carol Johnson (Illustrator), Orr Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.38 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1943 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Home Country 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1940 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Last Chapter 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Ernie Pyle in England 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1941	My rating:
	Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches by Ernie Pyle, David Nichols 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Gatlinburg and the Great Smokies by Ernie Pyle, C. C. Callaway (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	On a Wing and a Prayer: The Aviation Columns 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	An Ernie Pyle Album: Indiana to Ie Shima by Lee G. Miller, Ernie Pyle 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Ernie Pyle

“To me, the summer wind in the Midwest is one of the most melancholy things in all life. It comes from so far away and blows so gently and yet so relentlessly; it rustles the leaves and the branches of the maple trees in a sort of symphony of sadness, and it doesn't pass on and leave them still. It just keeps coming, like the infinite flow of Old Man River. You could -- and you do -- wear out your lifetime on the dusty plains with that wind of futility blowing in your face. And when you are worn out and gone, the wind -- still saying nothing, still so gentle and sad and timeless -- is still blowing across the prairies, and will blow in the faces of the little men who follow you, forever.”
― Ernie Pyle

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“There are no atheists in the foxhole.”
― Ernie Pyle

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“Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.”
― Ernie Pyle

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