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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway
Earl Theisen, 1953

Ernest Hemingway

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, Ernest Hemingway served in the Red Cross during World War I as an ambulance driver and was severely wounded in Italy. He moved to Paris in 1921, devoted himself to writing fiction, and soon became part of the expatriate community, along with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. He revolutionized American writing with his short, declarative sentences and terse prose. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and his classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game... Read full bio

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Morecambe Bay Visitor, February 11, 2012
...sets imaginations on fire and offers youngsters their first heady taste of freedom. Silver’s heroes are Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway and the French existentialist writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, but the 33-year-old English teacher falls...
Globe and Mail, February 10, 2012
...of my sumptuous bed. Currently, one of the books on my bedside table is A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway. I must confess Ive never been a great fan of his novels. In fact, it was only after reading The Paris Wife, by Paula McLain, that I became...
AZCentral.com, February 10, 2012
...priced at $175. Some other items in the rare section: "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway, 1952. First edition with dust cover. "Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not," by Florence Nightingale. Published in 1860. First U.S. edition...
Huffington Post, February 10, 2012
...were into science fiction, especially Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Poul Anderson. I also liked John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway and after being introduced to their work I read all of their novels. But the teachers wanted us to read books by...
AZCentral.com, February 10, 2012
...priced at $175. Some other items in the rare section: "The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway, 1952. First edition with dust cover. "Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not," by Florence Nightingale. Published in 1860. First U.S. edition...
Telegraph, February 10, 2012
...the anti-artist, the spokesman of janitresses, the Father Gigone of the editors of Siecle.” 15. William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” 14. Ernest Hemingway...
NPR, February 9, 2012
...gotten wrong, and a harsh re-evaluation of his passive approach to life.NPR Bestseller, Follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris. By the author of A Ticket to Ride.NPR Bestseller Going undercover to...
NewsOK.com, January 3, 2012
...it's the 1920s, where the likes of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter and Ernest Hemingway are all running around. The exquisite joke of “Midnight in Paris,” though, is that none of the folks in the 1920s is especially happy,...
Fargo Forum, January 3, 2012
...hit novel “The Paris Wife” to the new movie version of “The Great Gatsby.” Hadley, the name of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, is enjoying a turn in the spotlight nearly a century after her heyday in Paris. RORY. Runner up: Rafael Northern Irish...
Zimbio, January 2, 2012
...Ocean. When you’re on Duvall, you can also swing by Sloppy Joe’s, the famous bar that Ernest Hemingway frequented when he lived on the island, and don’t forget to head over to Mallory Square for the Key West sunset celebration. Local artists and...
GoArticles, January 2, 2012
...locate their payback or perhaps let love expand in his coronary heart? 8-10. The Goodbye to Arms -- Ernest Hemingway This kind of novel is all about a good emergency driver inside the German army throughout The First World War. The character comes in...
SailWorld.com, January 2, 2012
...Billfish Species. Circle Hook Instructional Presentation and Tagging Research', on May 28th. This day also starts the 62th 'Ernest Hemingway' International Billfish Fishing Tournament. At midday of April 27, the 20th Anniversary of HIYC of Cuba Cruising...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 2, 2012
...month by reading a famous book whose story you know but have never actually read -- something by Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald or another writer of your choice. OCTOBER Crunchy leaves...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 2, 2012
...month by reading a famous book whose story you know but have never actually read -- something by Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald or another writer of your choice. Crunchy leaves...