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Ernest Hemingway
DOUG JOHNSON: Gennady Bydzan from Kazakhstan wants to know about the writer Ernest Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway was one of the best known writers in American history. He was one of the twentieth century's most important and influential writers.
He wrote many famous books and earned millions of dollars from his writing. Among his best books are “The Old Man and The Sea,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” “A Farewell to Arms” and “The Sun Also Rises.” Many of his most famous books were written before he was thirty years old. Several were made into movies. He won many prizes for his writing and influenced many writers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in nineteen fifty-four.
Ernest Hemingway’s writing style is very simple yet very powerful. It may have been influenced by his work as a newspaper reporter. Hemingway expressed little emotion in his writing. He said it would be too easy to do that. Instead, he tried to describe a situation so well that the reader would understand the emotion in it.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago, in eighteen ninety-nine. He shot himself to death in nineteen sixty-one, just as his father had years earlier. Hemingway was sixty-one. He had lost the ability to write and was sick most of the time. He probably suffered from depression and drank too much alcohol.
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