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Ernest Hemingway


Born
in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States
July 21, 1899

Died
July 02, 1961

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Terse literary style of Ernest Miller Hemingway, an American writer, ambulance driver of World War I , journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, marks short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), which concern courageous, lonely characters, and he won the Nobel Prize of 1954 for literature.

Economical and understated style of Hemingway strongly influenced 20th-century fiction, whereas 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. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two nonfiction works. Survivors published posthumously three novels, four collectio
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The Old Man and the Sea

3.80 avg rating — 1,144,582 ratings — published 1952 — 2431 editions
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The Sun Also Rises

3.79 avg rating — 443,795 ratings — published 1926 — 1890 editions
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A Farewell to Arms

3.82 avg rating — 321,082 ratings — published 1929 — 1526 editions
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For Whom the Bell Tolls

3.98 avg rating — 293,018 ratings — published 1940 — 1001 editions
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A Moveable Feast

4.02 avg rating — 150,758 ratings — published 1964 — 203 editions
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro an...

3.80 avg rating — 43,762 ratings — published 1936 — 260 editions
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4.29 avg rating — 36,377 ratings — published 1987 — 121 editions
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To Have and Have Not

3.52 avg rating — 32,523 ratings — published 1937 — 251 editions
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In Our Time

3.75 avg rating — 24,683 ratings — published 1925 — 420 editions
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The Garden of Eden

3.71 avg rating — 21,203 ratings — published 1986 — 159 editions
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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