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Who Was Ernest Hemingway?

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Who Was Ernest Hemingway?

Ernest Hemingway is an author renowned for novels such as The Sun Also Rises , A Farewell to Arms , For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea , which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 and is one of only 13 Americans with the honor. Before becoming famous as a short-story writer and novelist, he served in World War I and worked as an ambulance driver and war correspondent. He also

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