Ernest Hemingway was a famous American writer and journalist. He
wrote most of his books from 1920 to 1950. He won the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 1954. He published seven novels and six short story books.
Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois in Chicago.
From 1913 to 1917, he attended Oak Park and River Forest High School.
He first wrote in the school newspaper in 1916. He was a journalist before
becoming a novelist. After leaving high school he started writing in the
Kansas City Star as a reporter. In 1918, he joined the Italian Army as an
ambulance driver during World War-I. He was wounded in the war in July 1918. So, he returned to the USA in January 1919. 'The Old Man and the Sea' was published in 1957. The book drew much attention of the writers and critics. He committed suicide in 1961 in his summer house.
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Answer:Ernest Hemingway, in full Ernest Miller Hemingway, (born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.—died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho), American novelist and short-story writer, 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 son of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in a suburb of Chicago. He was educated in the public schools and began to write in high school, where he was active and outstanding, but the parts of his boyhood that mattered most were summers spent with his family on Walloon Lake in upper Michigan. On graduation from high school in 1917, impatient for a less-sheltered environment, he did not enter college but went to Kansas City, where he was employed as a reporter for the Star. He was repeatedly rejected for military service because of a defective eye, but he managed to enter World War I as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. On July 8, 1918, not yet 19 years old, he was injured on the Austro-Italian front at Fossalta di Piave. Decorated for heroism and hospitalized in Milan, he fell in love with a Red Cross nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky, who declined to marry him. These were experiences he was never to forget.
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