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Ernest Miller Hemingway
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Famous American novelist and short-story writer. His writings and personal
life influenced American writers of his time. He was born in Oak Park,
Illinois, July 21, 1899, and educated at Oak Park High School. He became
a reporter for the Kansas City Star. He was a soldier in World War I in
Italy and was severely wounded. During the Spanish Civil War and in World
War II he was a newspaper correspondent. Later he was a reporter for the
U.S. Army. Hemingway drew heavily on his experiences as an avid fisherman,
hunter and bullfight enthusiast in his writings after he moved to Ketchum,
Idaho. His death in Ketchum on July 2, 1961, is regarded as suicide.
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