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Born	September 13, 1876 • Ohio
Died	March 8, 1941 (aged 64) • Colón • Panama
Notable Works	“Death in the Woods” • “Horses and Men” • “Triumph of the Egg” • “Winesburg, Ohio”
Movement / Style	Chicago literary renaissance

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Typewritten letter dated March 9, 1922, from Ernest Hemingway to Sherwood Anderson, with text filling most of a single aged page.

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