Ernest Hemingway

American writer, journalist, and war correspondent (1899-1961)

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About

Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois, and died in Ketchum, Idaho, is a major figure of 20th-century American literature. He began as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, then moved to Paris in 1921, where he mingled with the writers of the 'Lost Generation'. His spare style and direct prose mark novels such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. As a war correspondent, he covered World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for The Old Man and the Sea. Suffering from depression, he committed suicide in 1961.

* 1899-07-21 — † 1961-07-02

Major works

The Sun Also Rises (1926)novel
A Farewell to Arms (1929)novel
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)novel
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)novel
A Moveable Feast (1964)memoir

Key milestones

1918Volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian front, he was seriously wounded by shrapnel and received the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery.
1953Won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1954Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his mastery of narrative art, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea.

Themes

War and its aftermathMasculinity and stoicismNature and survivalLoss and disillusionmentMinimalist writing style

Sources: nobelprize.org · id.loc.gov · jfklibrary.org

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

— Ernest HemingwayTheme · Wisdom

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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”

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“Courage is grace under pressure.”

— Ernest HemingwayTheme · Courage

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“Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved.”

— Ernest HemingwayTheme · Literature

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