Hemingway, Ernest Miller

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Hemingway, Ernest Miller (1899–1961) US writer. After serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, Hemingway became a journalist, first in Paris and later as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War and World War II. The novel The Sun Also Rises (1926), published in the UK as Fiesta (1927), chronicled the Lost Generation and established his reputation. Later works include a non-fiction work about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon (1932), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and the novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Hemingway was also an acclaimed short-story writer. He received the 1954 Nobel Prize in literature.

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