Ernest Hemingway 18991961

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Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961)
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His Life

• Born in Oak Park, Illinois
• Loved hunting, fishing, and boxing
• Rejected from service- WWI
• Moves to K.C.- Writes obituaries

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His Life (cont.)

• Joins Red Cross Ambulance Corps.
• Italian front- wounded and falls in love with a
  nurse
• Married four times
• Shot himself in 1961

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Fun Facts

• Most widely imitated author of the 20th century
• Friends with Castro

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Writing Style

• Short, crisp, sensual sentences
• Iceberg Principal "I always try to write on the
  principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths
  of it under water for every part that shows.
  Anything you know you can eliminate and it only
  strengthens your iceberg."
• Hemingway Hero- tough, lives dangerously, loves
  sports, sensual)

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Novels

• A Farewell to Arms
• The Sun Also Rises
• The Old Man and the Sea
• For Whom the Bell Tolls