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US writer. After serving as an ambulance driver in World War 1, Hemingway became a journalist, first in Paris and later as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War and World War 2. The novel The Sun Also Rises (1926), published in the UK as Fiesta (1927), chronicled the Lost Generation and established his reputation. Later works include a non-fiction work about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon (1932), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and the novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Hemingway was also an acclaimed short-story writer. He received the 1954 Nobel Prize in literature.


Hemingway, Ernest

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. As one of the writers of the lost generation, he gave a voice to the uncertainty of the American experience in the post—World War I world, addressing the moral void left by the first mechanized war. Hemingway had an enormous influence on twentieth-century American literary style, refining the craft of the short story and changing the way in which fictional characters spoke. His work tells us specifically about Americans in the twentieth century, home and abroad, as well as showing us that concerns of love, honor, and bravery are universal and will endure. Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 for his novella, The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Like many of his peers, Hemingway honed his craft in Paris, developing under the tutelage of Gertrude Stein, who focused his attention on language. In Paris he also socialized with other key writers and artists of the day, …
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Full text Article ERNEST HEMINGWAY

From Great Lives: A Century in Obituaries
The announcement of Ernest Hemingway’s death at the age of 61 can, in a sense, come as no surprise to his readers. Death was always one of his principal themes as a writer, and he had himself been confronting it directly ever since he had broken away from the suburban environment in which he had…
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Full text Article Hemingway, Ernest [Miller]

From Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature
H.'s fame depends on his style. The early style that established his reputation is lean, laconic, devoid of strings of adjectives and adverbs or particularly colorful modifiers. The sentences tend to be simple or compound declarative clauses; conjunctions are coordinating, rarely subordinating, so…
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Full text Article Hemingway, Ernest

From The Great American History Fact-Finder
Writer. Hemingway won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952) and received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. One of his favorite themes was war and its brutal effects on survivors; the typical Hemingway hero endures violence and defeat with courage. His…
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US writer. After serving as an ambulance driver in World War 1, Hemingway became a journalist, first in Paris and later as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War and World War 2. The novel The Sun Also Rises (1926), published in the UK as Fiesta (1927), chronicled the Lost Generation and…
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Full text Article HEMINGWAY, ERNEST (1899-1961)

From Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink
Author. Considered one of the great stylists of American literature as a novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Ernest Miller Hemingway had a tremendous influence on food and travel writing and established a form of masculine gourmandism that included everything from how to cook pancakes in a…
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Full text Article Hemingway, Ernest (1899–1961)

From Encyclopedia of Cuban-United States Relations
A U.S. writer who lived in Cuba since the mid–1930s until 1960, Hemingway's Cuban experiences led to three novels, including the best selling Old Man and the Sea (1952). During World War II, Hemingway engaged in espionage work for the U.S. embassy. Owing to his wide contacts in Cuban society, he…
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US novelist, short-story writer and journalist, whose terse prose style was much imitated. He was a legendary figure known for his drinking, big-game hunting, and deep-sea fishing. He won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954. Depressed by his failing powers, he later committed suicide. Switzerland…
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Full text Article Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
American novelist, husband of Martha gellhorn . See also donne , faulkner , fitzgerald , jackson , stein I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. Death in the Afternoon (1932) …
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Full text Article LEOPARD

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
American novelist, short–story writer and journalist Close to the western summit [of Kilimanjaro] there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. The Snows of Kilimanjaro Chapter 1 (p. 3 ) Simon & Schuster. New York New York…
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Full text Article Hemingway (Ernest) Days Festival

From Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
This week-long celebration of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), the American novelist and short-story writer, is held in Key West, FL. The festival has been held since 1980 during the week of Hemingway's birthday, July 21. Hemingway made his home in Key West at one time, and his novel, To Have and Have…
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