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Hemingway Code Hero
Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway | Hemingway in 1939 | Born | (1899-07-21)July 21, 1899
Oak Park, Illinois, USA | Died | July 2, 1961(1961-07-02) (aged 61)
Ketchum, Idaho, USA | Nationality | American | Notable award(s) | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1954) | Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
(1921–1927)
Pauline Pfeiffer
(1927–1940)
Martha Gellhorn
(1940–1945)
Mary Welsh Hemingway
(1946–1961) | Children | Jack, Patrick, Gregory |
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) 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



References: World War I Milan, 1918, Hemingway in uniform Hemingway (center) with Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens and German writer Ludwig Renn (serving as an International Brigades officer) in Spain during Spanish Civil War, 1937. Hemingway and sons Patrick (left) and Gregory, with three cats at Finca Vigía ca. 1942–1943. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser.Opening statement of Nobel Prize acceptance speech, 1954 [recorded privately by Hemingway after-the-fact]. | Problems listening to this file? See media help. |

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