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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway
Earl Theisen, 1953

Ernest Hemingway

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, Ernest Hemingway served in the Red Cross during World War I as an ambulance driver and was severely wounded in Italy. He moved to Paris in 1921, devoted himself to writing fiction, and soon became part of the expatriate community, along with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. He revolutionized American writing with his short, declarative sentences and terse prose. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and his classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game... Read full bio

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Suite101.com, May 12, 2012
...open, to flower and express himself. The final story in the collection is a very powerful depiction of Ernest Hemingway's last days leading up to his suicide. Similar to Poe Posthumous, Oates skilfully shows the deterioration of a once bright and lucid...
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...the first letters of words and see the search results while you type. So for books on quot;Ernest Hemingway quot; simply type quot;ern hem. quot; The Centre College Library has invested in the latest mobile solution for libraries and we hope you enjoy it...
Hartford Courant, May 11, 2012
...Canton Library's "Monday Night Book Club" on Monday, May 14. The novel is a fictionalized version of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson's courtship and marriage. "Although fiction, the story was carefully researched by McLain, who tells the story...
Nashville Scene, May 11, 2012
...— a biopic with Nicole Kidman as war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and Clive Owen as her resentful husband Ernest Hemingway that premieres May 28 on HBO — it gave the library's Bill Chamberlain and Clint Tatum an excuse to record an interview with...
Individual.com, May 11, 2012
...banned books of all time include "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain, according to the American Library Association. "Carter Finally Gets It" was recognized by...
NPR, May 10, 2012
...find their destinies inexplicably entwined as they build their lives in America. NPR Bestseller Follows the life of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, as she navigates 1920s Paris. By the author of A Ticket to Ride.NPR Bestseller New threats emerge...
Exec Digital, May 10, 2012
...titles.  In addition to a list that includes such unparalleled authors as Mary Higgins Clark , Vince Flynn , Ernest Hemingway , Stephen King , Michael Lewis , and David McCullough .  Simon & Schuster Audio has produced audiobooks that have won seven...
KPC News, March 3, 2012
...“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” — Ernest Hemingway A while back, our family was on a trip to visit my parents, who had retired and moved to Idaho. My wife and I were having one of those...
PR-USA.net, March 3, 2012
...s titles. In addition to a list that includes such unparalleled authors as Mary Higgins Clark, Vince Flynn, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Michael Lewis, and David McCullough. Simon & Schuster Audio has produced audiobooks that have won seven Grammy...
New England Arts, March 3, 2012
...elbows with some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. But instead of literary titans like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, we make time with Cuban jazz greats like Tito Puente and Chano Pozo. The likes of Nat King Cole, Dizzy...
New England Arts, March 3, 2012
...elbows with some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. But instead of literary titans like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, we make time with Cuban jazz greats like Tito Puente and Chano Pozo. The likes of Nat King Cole, Dizzy...
PensacolaNewsJournal.com, March 3, 2012
...the Gettysburg Address, "Moby Dick," Martin Luther King's sermons and speeches, hundreds of book titles, including Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun also Rises" and James Agee's "Let us Praise Famous Men." The text devoted to freedom, grace and redemption...
Glenview Announcements, March 3, 2012
...BookIT! Nonfiction Book Group — 7 p.m. March 15. The March selection is A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. Meets bimonthly. All Things Spanish — 7 p.m. March 21. Join Spanish speakers, native and non-native alike, to share your love of Hispanic...
Oak Ridger, March 2, 2012
...elbows with some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. But instead of literary titans like Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, we make time with Cuban jazz greats like Tito Puente and Chano Pozo. The likes of Nat King Cole, Dizzy...