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Ernest Hemingway

American writer
Also known as: Ernest Miller Hemingway
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Evan Pugh Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1980–88. Author of Ernest Hemingway; coauthor of The Hemingway Manuscripts.
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Ernest Hemingway (born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.—died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho) was an American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century. The first...

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