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Novelist and journalist · 1899–1961 · Art & Literature

Drove ambulances at eighteen, stripped English prose down to its load-bearing beams, and won the Nobel Prize for a novella about an old fisherman.

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“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”

Hemingway, letter, 1934

Who Ernest Hemingway was

Hemingway was wounded by mortar fire while serving with the Red Cross ambulance corps in Italy at eighteen, an experience that runs through A Farewell to Arms. In 1920s Paris, with Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound nearby, he built the flat declarative style that changed American writing: short sentences, unstated emotion, the iceberg with seven eighths below the surface. He reported on the Spanish Civil War and the Normandy landings, hunted in East Africa, fished off Cuba, and survived two plane crashes in two days. The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer in 1953 and the Nobel followed in 1954. He shot himself at his Idaho home in 1961.

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What does leaving something out do to a sentence?

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How did the wound in Italy change your writing?

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What was Paris in the twenties actually like?

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What did you get wrong about Spain?

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Why keep going back to fishing and bullfighting?

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