Ernest Hemingway
Geboren: July 21, 1899 – Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for spare prose and themes of war, courage, and loss. His notable works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, into a middle-class family that valued education, music, and outdoor life. His father, a physician, introduced him to hunting and fishing, while his mother encouraged artistic discipline. After high school, he did not attend college, choosing instead to work as a reporter for The Kansas City Star. That newsroom became an early training ground: its emphasis on short sentences, concrete detail, and disciplined observation shaped the style that later made him famous. A major turning point came during World War I, when he served as an ambulance driver in Italy, was badly wounded, and drew lasting material from the experience.
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A farewell to arms
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A poignant love story set against the backdrop of World War I, exploring themes of war, masculinity, and loss.
The Old Man and the Sea
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An aging fisherman battles a giant marlin and his own mortality in this poignant tale of perseverance and dignity.
A Moveable Feast
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Hemingway's vivid memoir of 1920s Paris, capturing the essence of expatriate life and literary friendships in a bygone era.
A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway
A poignant love story set against the backdrop of World War I, exploring themes of war, masculinity, and loss.
The Old Man and the Sea
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An aging fisherman battles a giant marlin and his own mortality in this poignant tale of perseverance and dignity.
A Moveable Feast
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Hemingway's vivid memoir of 1920s Paris, capturing the essence of expatriate life and literary friendships in a bygone era.
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"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 was awarded to Ernest Miller Hemingway 'for his mastery of the art of narrative."
— Nobel Prize
"I always say Hemingway, because he taught me how sentences worked"
— Joan Didion
"Hemingway is the dramatist of the extreme situation"
— Walter Allen
"Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway was one of the great 20th-century American novelists"
— Biography.com
"Hemingway's fictions seem rooted in his journeys into himself"
— Earl Rovit
"What was special about Hemingway's early writing was its precision and concision"
— Michiko Kakutani
"Hemingway achieved a fame surpassed by few, if any, American authors of the 20th century"
— Britannica
"Hemingway became a legendary figure, 'a kind of twentieth-century Lord Byron."
— John W. Aldridge
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