Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Instead of attending college, he became a journalist, working in Kansas City before enlisting as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross with the French Army in World War I. After the war, he returned to journalism, working as a foreign correspondent in Paris. Hemingway preferred life there and became an expatriate. His first success, In Our Time (1923), is a group of stories that expresses the peculiar kind of disillusionment of young Americans at that time. He and his contemporaries became the "Lost Generation," their ranks thinned, their hopes shattered because of the war. Hemingway's stories best exhibit his lean and terse style of writing that accentuates dialogue rather than action and combines passion, brutality, and compassion. Hemingway's novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), The Green Hills of Africa (1935), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). In 1954, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Six years later, despondent over his health and the quality of his life, Hemingway committed suicide. Author Links
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