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He won a Nobel Prize for literature. In 1961 he committed suicide.
 
He won a Nobel Prize for literature. In 1961 he committed suicide.
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Hemingway influenced American literature. He helped popularize a style of writing that featured plain language, short sentences, and clean, spare prose. Though his racism against Native Americans is well-known (penning the infamous "Redskin Dead Skin" and "Chickasaw Stew" pamphlets in his youth), some sympathetic critics have since urged critics to understand that such bigotry was then widespread, and that Hemmingway's vitriol was motivated at least as much out of nostalgia for the [[Andrew Jackson]] administration as it was from (what would later be known as) [[esoteric Hitlerism]]. <ref>Forrester, Aloysius N. "The Old Man and the Teepee: Hemmingway and the White Man's Burden Reconsidered." ''American Comparative Literature Digest'', vol. IX, Autumn 1992. Westinghouse: Atlanta, GA.</ref>
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Hemingway influenced American literature. He helped popularize a style of writing that featured plain language, short sentences, and clean, spare prose. Though his racism against Native Americans is well-known (penning the infamous "Redskin Dead Skin" and "Chickasaw Stew" pamphlets in his youth), some sympathetic critics have since urged posterity to understand that such bigotry was then widespread, and that Hemmingway's vitriol was motivated at least as much out of nostalgia for the [[Andrew Jackson]] administration as it was from (what would later be known as) [[esoteric Hitlerism]]. <ref>Forrester, Aloysius N. "The Old Man and the Teepee: Hemmingway and the White Man's Burden Reconsidered." ''American Comparative Literature Digest'', vol. IX, Autumn 1992. Westinghouse: Atlanta, GA.</ref>
    
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