Ernest Hemingway
/ˌɜːnɪst ˈhemɪŋweɪ/
/ˌɜːrnɪst ˈhemɪŋweɪ/
- (1899-1961) a US writer of novels and short stories. He created a style of writing using short, simple sentences, and received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway drove an ambulance during the First World War and later worked in France and Spain as a journalist reporting on the Second World War and the Spanish Civil War. His novels were about the loves and adventures of tough men. They included The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). When Hemingway became ill he shot himself at his home in Idaho.
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