Ernest Hemingway: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Ernest Miller Hemingway
Born	July 21, 1899 • Oak Park • Illinois
Died	July 2, 1961 (aged 61) • Idaho
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize (1954) • Pulitzer Prize (1953)
Notable Works	“A Clean Well-Lighted Place” • “A Farewell to Arms” • “A Moveable Feast” • “Across the River and Into the Trees” • “Death in the Afternoon” • “For Whom the Bell Tolls” • “Green Hills of Africa” • “Hills like White Elephants” • “In Our Time” • “Islands in the Stream” • “The Fifth Column” • “The Old Man and the Sea” • “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” • “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” • “The Sun Also Rises” • “To Have and Have Not”
Notable Family Members	spouse Martha Gellhorn

The FBI monitored Hemingway during World War II because he was a suspected spy for the Soviet Union.
Hemingway owned a six-toed cat whose descendants today reside in his former home in Key West, Florida.
National newspapers mistakenly reported that Hemingway was dead after he survived two plane crashes in two days.