Ernest Miller Hemingway, 1899 - 1961
Writing in Kenya, 1953 photo for Look Magazine by Earl Theisen
Born: 21 July 1899, Oak Park, Illinois
Died: 2 July 1961, Ketchum, Idaho
Hemingway took a job as a reporter for the Kansas City Star instead of college. Eye damage from high-school boxing matches kept him from fighting in the first world war, but not from driving an ambulance in Italy for the Red Cross. After recovering from wounds sustained in combat, Hemingway stayed on the move, marrying four women in turn, covering the Spanish Civil War, and turning to novels featuring the same terse, clear style he learned as a reporter. "The Old Man and the Sea" won the Pulitzer in 1953 and led to the Nobel Prize in Literature the next year.
Biography from Wikipedia and the Hemingway Resource Center
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- A bottle of wine was good company.
- The Sun Also Rises (1926) - A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
- The Old Man and the Sea (1952) - A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
- A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
- Death in the Afternoon (1932) - A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
- Nobel acceptance speech delivered by US Ambassador John C. Cabot (10 December 1954) - A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.
- About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Death in the Afternoon (1932) - Actually, if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).
- 1953 letter to Bernard Berenson (20 March 1953) - All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
- "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba" Esquire (December 1934) - All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
- "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba" Esquire (December 1934) - All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
- Green Hills of Africa (1935) - All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
- All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
- Death in the Afternoon (1932) - All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.
- The Sun Also Rises (1926) - All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
- "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba" Esquire (December 1934)
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