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Born: July 21, 1899 - Oak Park, Illinois
Died: July 2, 1961 - Ketchum, Idaho
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 t eleven o'clock I went over to the Quai d'Orsay in a taxi and went in and sat with about a dozen correspondents, while the foreign-office mouthpiece, a young Nouvelle Revue Francaise diplomat in horn-rimmed spectacles, talked and answered questions for half an hour. The President of the Council was in Lyons making a speech, or, rather he was on his way back. Several people asked questions to hear themselves talk and there were a couple questions asked by news service men who wanted to know the answers. There was no news. "
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Teaching Topics in Social Studies
Hemingway served as an ambulance driver in Italy during WORLD WAR I. He lived as an EXPATRIATE in Europe for many years. In 1922, he went to Constantinople to cover the
WAR BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY for the Toronto Star. In 1937-38, Hemingway visited Spain four times, as a reporter for the North American Newspaper Alliance; he was an active supporter of the LOYALIST party during the SPANISH CIVIL WAR. During WORLD WAR II, Hemingway was at Normandy on D-DAY as a corespondent for Collier's Magazine. He lived in Cuba for many of his later years, and was a supporter of FIDEL CASTRO'S REVOLUTION.
Teaching Topics in Language Arts
Hemingway began his career as a REPORTER for theKansas City Star. While living in Europe, Hemingway
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learned LITERARY SPARENESS and COMPRESSION from AVANT-GARDE writers like Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. He incorporated this unique style into his NOVELS and SHORT STORIES.
| Facts About Ernest Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises |
- Hemingway was prevented from enlisting in the army in World War I because of his poor eyesight
- His mother did not attend her book club's review of The Sun Also Rises because she was deeply embarrassed by the book's sexual content
- His father, Dr. Hemingway, killed himself with a .32 revolver in 1928
- Hemingway was injured in two successive plane crashes in Africa in 1953, from which he never fully recovered
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