Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899. He worked as a cub reporter at The Kansas City Star, served as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I, where he was seriously wounded, and moved to Paris in 1921 as a correspondent for the Toronto Star.
His books include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). His lean, understated prose influenced generations of later writers. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and died in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961.
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