10 Best Books by Ernest Hemingway, Ranked | Culture - The Manual

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Hemingway working on his book 
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Happy birthday, Papa. The great American novelist and short story writer Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21 in Oak Park, Illinois. A war veteran and foreign correspondent for international papers and magazines, Hemingway’s life and work are defined by travel, adventure, masculinity, weakness, nobility, and love. As an author, he created a canon of untouchable masterpieces via a prose style that was stripped, bare, and utterly novel at the time.

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We love Hemingway, and therefore pulled out all our books by the Champ, poured a Death in the Afternoon (rinse a Champagne flute with absinthe and add Champagne), and ranked his 10 best books so that anyone who hasn’t read them can get started.

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