Facts about Ernest Hemingway

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   Prolific author Ernest Hemingway wrote his famously concise novel The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.

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   A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's 1929 novel set during World War I, drew heavily from his own experiences as an ambulance driver on the Italian front.

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   Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway published his sparse, iceberg-theory prose style debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, in 1926.

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   The writer survived 200 stitches to his face after a 1954 plane crash in Uganda that also caused him permanent spinal injuries affecting his writing ability.

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   During the 1926 bullfighting season in Pamplona, Ernest Hemingway attended eight consecutive days of corridas that inspired his novel The Sun Also Rises.

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