Quick Facts about Ernest Miller Hemingway[]
Birth Date: 21 July 1899
Death Date: 2 July 1961 (aged 62)
Place of Birth: Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago
Place of Death: Ketchum, Idaho
Nationality: American
Occupations: novelist, short story writer, and journalist
Known for: A style characterized by crispness, laconic dialog, and emotional understatement; It looks childlike but his method is calculated and used to complex effort.
Milestones:
In World War I received Silver Medal of Military Valor
1947 received Bronze Star (War Correspondent-Military Irregular in World War II)
1953 received the Pulitzer Prize for Old Man and the Sea
1954 received the Nobel Prize in Literature
Quotes:
“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” ===Did You Know,
Hemingway attempted suicide in the spring of 1961, and received ECT treatment. Then some three weeks short of his 62nd birthday, he took his own life on the morning of July 2, 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho,with a shotgun blast to his head.===
He is famous for The original short short story. In the 1920s, Hemingway bet his colleagues $ 10 that he could write a complete story in just six words. They paid up. His story:“For sale: Baby shoes, Never worn.”
A minor planet, 3656 Hemingway, was discovered by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1978 and named after him.
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