Difference between revisions of "Ernest Hemingway"

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Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was a famous author whose works included:

He won a Nobel Prize for literature. In 1961 he committed suicide.

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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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−	His prose was clean and tight. His sentences were short. Other writers admired his prose. They said "it is whole and true; it is good." Also, it was the prose of a man. He wrote about manly things. He wrote about bullfighting and fishing, and guns and war, and drinking and women. Writers in the decades before Hemingway had taken a civilized but effete delight in sophisticated prose, prose that scintillated with erudition, sparkled with the joy of a conscious pleasure in style, and piled phrase upon phrase, clause upon clause, sentence upon sentence in a corruscating effulgence of verbal pyrotechnics. Hemingway changed all that.