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Ernest Hemingway Biography 

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an iconic American novelist and journalist, famous for his terse style, adventurous life, and classics like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea, earning him the 1954 Nobel Prize, though his life ended tragically with suicide amid struggles with depression, anxiety, and alcoholism. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Early Life & Journalism:

• Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he developed a love for the outdoors (fishing, hunting) from his father.
• After high school, he worked for the Kansas City Star, adopting a direct, concise writing style that became his trademark. [2, 4, 5, 6, 7]

World War I & The Lost Generation:

• He served as an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI, where he was wounded and decorated.
• After the war, he moved to Paris, becoming part of the expatriate "Lost Generation," influencing his first major work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). [4, 5, 8, 9]

Major Works & War Reporting:

• His experiences in WWI inspired A Farewell to Arms (1929).
• He reported on the Spanish Civil War (inspiring For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940) and WWII, covering events like the liberation of Paris. [5, 9]

Later Life & Legacy:

• He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea (1952) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954).
• His later years were marked by declining health, mental struggles, and increased drinking.
• He died by suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961, leaving behind a powerful legacy of minimalist prose and a larger-than-life personal image. [2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10]

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

[2] https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway

[3] https://www.scribd.com/document/919814084/Ernest-Hemingway-Biography

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQDe0GCNHg

[5] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/biographical/

[6] https://www.sparknotes.com/author/ernest-hemingway/

[7] https://www.ernesthemingway.org/

[8] https://study.com/learn/lesson/video/ernest-hemingway-biography-books.html

[9] https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/facts/

[10] https://academized.com/ernest-hemingway

Books written by Ernest Hemingway 

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a demolitions expert, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during the Segovia Offensive.

It was published just after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), whose general lines were well known at the time. It assumes the reader knows that the war was between the government of the Second Spanish Republic, which many foreigners went to Spain to help and which was supported by the Communist Soviet Union, and the Nationalist faction, which was supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. In 1940, the year the book was published, the United States had not yet entered World War II, which began on September 1, 1939, with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.

The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works, along with The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea.