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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was an influential American author and journalist celebrated for his distinctive prose and adventurous life.

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Ernest Hemingway is best known for Pioneering American novelist and journalist known for his economical writing style and classic works like 'The Old Man and the Sea'. On Dead or Alive, Ernest Hemingway is listed in the Nobel Laureates category, where you can test yourself on similar names. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Ernest Hemingway is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: Pioneering American novelist and journalist known for his economical writing style and classic works like 'The Old Man and the Sea'.
Listed under: Nobel Laureates

About Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he spent six months as a reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting in the Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded by shrapnel in 1918. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926. In 1928, Hemingway returned to the U.S., where he settled in Key West, Florida. His experiences during the war supplied material for his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. In 1937, Hemingway went to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War, which formed the basis for his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, written in Havana, Cuba. During World War II, Hemingway was present with Allied troops as a journalist at the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris. His novella The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952 to widespread acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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