10 Surprising Facts About Ernest Hemingway | Book Corner - Mental Floss

Ernest Hemingway was talented personality. 

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Ernest Hemingway was a titan of 20th-century literature, converting his lived experiences in multiple wars into rich, stirring tales like A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, notes Scott Beggs, veteran of writing about culture for a decade.

The avid sportsman also called upon his love for the outdoors to craft bittersweet metaphorical works like Big Two-Hearted River and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Old Man and the Sea. Here are 10 facts about the writer known as Papa, who was born on July 21, 1899.
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Ernest Miller Hemingway - The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954 by The Nobel Prize 
 
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