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Hemingway, Ernest Miller(Papa Hemingway)

Born: 1899 AD
Died: 1961 AD, at 61 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Novelists

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US author and journalist

 

Wrote novels "The Sun Also Rises" 1926, "A Farewell to Arms" 1929, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" 1940, "The Old Man and the Sea" 1952 (Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1953)

 

Nobel Prize in Literature 1954

 

Suicide: July 2, 1961

 

More biographical information is available at Timeless Hemingway.






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  • "You're beautiful, like a May fly."
  • "All good books have one thing in common-they are truer than if they had really happened."
  • "If a writer ... knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows.... The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
  • "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
  • "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
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