Biography:
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Illinois, U.S.
He was an American novelist and short-story writer. Son of a doctor, and of an opera singer, with whom he was all his life in conflict, he is the second of six children. In 1913, he entered high
school and abandoned fishing and hunting for sport. His first writings appear in the school's literary review. In 1917, he refused to follow university studies and entered the Kansas City Star as a journalist.
He received the Nobel Prize in Literature (1954, "for the powerful and new style by which he mastered the art of modern storytelling, as has just been proven" The Old Man and the Sea "") and the Pulitzer Prize (1953 , for "The Old Man and the Sea"). He leaves collections of short stories including "Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro". Suffering from diabetes and becoming blind, he committed suicide in July 1961.
Quotes:
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
Sources:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1455.Ernest_Hemingway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/biographical/
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