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Wonderful B&W original photograph PRESS PHOTO Size 8 x 10 inch Rarest Original Photo Ernest Hemingway 1949 in Cuba Finca Vigia in Cuba Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist . His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement , influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway's fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature . He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously .Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois . After leaving high school he worked for a few months as a reporter for The Kansas City Star , before leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War I , which became the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms . He was seriously wounded and returned home within the year. In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson , the first of his four wives, and the couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent . During his time there he met and was influenced by modernist writers and artists of the 1920s expatriate community known as the " Lost Generation ". His first novel, The Sun Also Rises , was written in 1924.After divorcing Hadley Richardson in 1927 Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer ; they divorced following Hemingway's return from covering the Spanish Civil War , after which he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls . Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940, but he left her for Mary Welsh Hemingway after World War II , during which he was present at D-Day and the liberation of Paris .Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952 Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida , and Cuba during the 1930s and '40s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho , where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961. Key West and the Caribbean In the late spring Hemingway and Pauline traveled to Kansas City where their son Patrick Hemingway was born on June 28, 1928. Pauline had a difficult delivery, which Hemingway fictionalized in A Farewell to Arms .[ 69 ] After Patrick's birth, Pauline and Hemingway traveled to Wyoming, Massachusetts and New York. [69 ] In the fall he was in New York with Bumby, about to board a train to Florida, when he received a cable telling him that his father had committed suicide. [note 2 ][ 70 ] Hemingway was devastated, having earlier sent a letter to his father telling him not to worry about financial difficulties; the letter arrived minutes after the suicide. He realized how Hadley must have felt after her own father's suicide in 1903, and he suggested, "I'll probably go the same way." [71 ]Upon his return to Key West in December, Hemingway worked on the draft of A Farewell to Arms before leaving for France in January. The draft had been finished in August but he delayed the revision. The serialization in Scribner's Magazine was scheduled to begin in May, but by April, Hemingway was still working on the ending, which he may have rewritten as many as seventeen times. A Farewell to Arms was published on September 27. [72 ] Biographer James Mellow believes Hemingway's stature as an American writer was secured with the publication of A Farewell to Arms , which has a complexity not apparent in The Sun Also Rises .[ 73 ] While in Spain during the summer of 1929, Hemingway researched his next work, Death in the Afternoon . He wanted to write a comprehensive treatise of bullfighting, with explana... read more

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