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Ernest Hemingway

Born

in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States

July 21, 1899

Died

July 02, 1961

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Anton Chekhov, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry ...more

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Terse literary style of Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American writer, ambulance driver of World War I , journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, marks short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which concern courageous, lonely characters, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1954 for literature.

Economical and understated style of Hemingway strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, whereas 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. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two nonfiction works. Survivors published posthumously three novels, four collectio Terse literary style of Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American writer, ambulance driver of World War I , journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, marks short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which concern courageous, lonely characters, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1954 for literature.

Economical and understated style of Hemingway strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, whereas 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. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two nonfiction works. Survivors published posthumously three novels, four collections of short stories, and three nonfiction works. People consider many of these classics.

After high school, Hemingway reported for a few months for the Kansas City Star before leaving for the Italian front to enlist. In 1918, someone seriously wounded him, who 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, and he worked as a foreign correspondent and fell under the influence of the modernist writers and artists of the expatriate community of the "lost generation" of 1920s.

After his divorce of 1927 from Hadley Richardson, Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer. At the Spanish civil war, he acted as a journalist; afterward, they divorced, and he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls . Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s.

Martha Gellhorn served as third wife of Hemingway in 1940. When he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II, they separated; he presently witnessed at the Normandy landings and liberation of Paris.

Shortly after 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where two plane crashes almost killed him and left him in pain and ill health for much of the rest of his life. Nevertheless, in 1959, he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961. ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 2,630,032 ratings · 110,021 reviews · 1,702 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Old Man and the Sea 3.80 avg rating — 1,120,702 ratings — published 1952 — 3106 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sun Also Rises 3.80 avg rating — 437,248 ratings — published 1926 — 2451 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 316,808 ratings — published 1929 — 1959 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.98 avg rating — 289,705 ratings — published 1940 — 279 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 148,738 ratings — published 1964 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories 3.81 avg rating — 43,171 ratings — published 1936 — 287 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway, John Hemingway (Foreword), Patrick Hemingway (Foreword) 4.29 avg rating — 36,162 ratings — published 1987 — 131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Have and Have Not 3.52 avg rating — 32,015 ratings — published 1937 — 459 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Our Time 3.75 avg rating — 24,272 ratings — published 1925 — 222 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Garden of Eden 3.71 avg rating — 20,911 ratings — published 1986 — 174 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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4.61 avg rating — 28 ratings

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March 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classic Reread

Which book would you like to read for our March 2015 Revisit the Shelf Classics group reread?

1903, The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, 204 pages

13 votes, 24.5%

1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages

7 votes, 13.2%

1883, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages

6 votes, 11.3%

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages

5 votes, 9.4%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

5 votes, 9.4%

1839, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 554 pages

4 votes, 7.5%

1969, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 215 pages

3 votes, 5.7%

1961, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 453 pages

3 votes, 5.7%

1811, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 409 pages

2 votes, 3.8%

1963, Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages

2 votes, 3.8%

1847, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, 464 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1960, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1936, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1037 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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