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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. During this time Hemingway met, and was influenced by, writers and artists of the 1920s expatriate community known as the "Lost Generation". In 1924 Hemingway wrote his first novel, The Sun Also Rises. In the late 1920s, Hemingway divorced Hadley, married his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer, and moved to Key West, Florida. In 1937 Hemingway went to Spain as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War. After the war he divorced Pauline, married his third wife Martha Gellhorn, wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, and moved to Cuba. Hemingway covered World War II in Europe and he was present at Operation Overlord. Later he was in Paris during the liberation of Paris. After the war, he divorced again, married his fourth wife Mary Welsh Hemingway, and wrote Across the River and Into the Trees. Two years later, The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952. Nine years later, after moving from Cuba to Idaho, he committed suicide in the summer of 1961. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid 1920s and the mid 1950s, though a number of unfinished works were published posthumously.Read the rest

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A Moveable Feast reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
7 out of 10
I went to Paris for the hunger and stayed for the score-settling, which is nobody's idea of a holiday.
A Moveable Feast@an_ordinary_tuesday24 Nov 2025
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A Farewell to Arms reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday
9 out of 10
It rains all the way through and I did not notice until my sister told me.
A Farewell to Arms@an_ordinary_tuesday15 Oct 2025
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Ernest Hemingway

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A Farewell to Arms

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The Sun Also Rises

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A Moveable Feast reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

A Farewell to Arms reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

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Short And Cold

A Farewell to Arms

A Moveable Feast

The Old Man and the Sea

The Sun Also Rises

A Moveable Feast reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

A Farewell to Arms reviewed by @an_ordinary_tuesday

Finished In One Weekend

Short And Cold