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Ernest Hemingway

Books by Ernest Hemingway

Lived: 1899–1961

Nationality: American

Gender: male

Catalog: 30 books

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. During this time Hemingway met, and was influenced by, writers and artists of the 1920s expatriate community known as the "Lost Generation". In 1924 Hemingway wrote his first novel, The Sun Also Rises. In the late 1920s, Hemingway divorced Hadley, married his second wife Pauline Pfeiffer, and moved to Key West, Florida. In 1937 Hemingway went to Spain as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War. After the war he divorced Pauline, married his third wife Martha Gellhorn, wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, and moved to Cuba. Hemingway covered World War II in Europe and he was present at Operation Overlord. Later he was in Paris during the liberation of Paris. After the war, he divorced again, married his fourth wife Mary Welsh Hemingway, and wrote Across the River and Into the Trees. Two years later, The Old Man and the Sea was published in 1952. Nine years later, after moving from Cuba to Idaho, he committed suicide in the summer of 1961. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid 1920s and the mid 1950s, though a number of unfinished works were published posthumously. Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature. During his lifetime, Hemingway's popularity peaked after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. [1] Source and more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

  1. 1Cover of The Sun Also Rises
  2. 2Cover of The Old Man and the Sea
  3. 3Cover of For Whom the Bell Tolls
  4. 4Cover of A Farewell to Arms
  5. 5Cover of Stories of Ernest Hemingway
  6. 6Cover of In Our Time

    In Our Time

    Ernest Hemingway · 1925 · 3 lists

  7. 7Cover of To Have and Have Not
  8. 8Cover of A Moveable Feast
  9. 9Cover of Men Without Women
  10. 10Cover of Across the River and into the Trees
  11. 11Cover of Death in the Afternoon
  12. 12Cover of El viejo y el mar
  13. 13Cover of Fiesta

    Fiesta

    Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · 0 lists

  14. 14Cover of Gato bajo la lluvia
  15. 15Cover of Hills Like White Elephants
  16. 16Cover of Il vecchio e il mare
  17. 17Cover of Las nieves del Kilimanjaro
  18. 18Cover of O Velho e o Mar
  19. 19Cover of París era una fiesta
  20. 20Cover of Por Quem os Sinos Dobram
  21. 21Cover of Stary człowiek i morze. Streszczenie, analiza, interpretacja
  22. 22Cover of The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
  23. 23Cover of The Dangerous Summer
  24. 24Cover of The Garden of Eden
  25. 25Cover of The Killers
  26. 26Cover of The Old Man and the Sea/The Sun Also Rises/A Farewell to Arms/For Whom the Bell Tolls
  27. 27Cover of The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber and Other Stories
  28. 28Cover of The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
  29. 29Cover of The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
  30. 30Cover of The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Short Story

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