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Ernest Hemingway


Born
in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States
July 21, 1899

Died
July 02, 1961

Genre

Influences


Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a
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Quotes by Ernest Hemingway  (?)
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Ernest Hemingway

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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Jan. 2016 Revisit the Shelf -- Group Reread

1969, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 215 pages
 
  25 votes, 17.9%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages
 
  21 votes, 15.0%

1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages
 
  17 votes, 12.1%

1985, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages
 
  17 votes, 12.1%

 
  17 votes, 12.1%

 
  12 votes, 8.6%

 
  11 votes, 7.9%

1953, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 227 pages
 
  9 votes, 6.4%

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.7%

1951, The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.1%

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