Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), full name Ernest Miller Hemingway, was a US novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He is known for his economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh were his four wives. While he was still married to his second wife Pauline, he met his third Martha in 1936. His tortuous love life led him to take full-time residence in Cuba in 1940. He met his fourth wife in 1944. In 1960 he came to settle in Ketchum, Idaho. He was anxiety-ridden and depressed, twice hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic, but on July 2, 1961, he took his life with a shotgun at his house in Ketchum.

Wisdom & Quotes

• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that it all happened to you, and afterwards it all belongs to you.

- An Old Newsman Writes

• Grace under pressure.

- definition of guts, quoted in John F Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

• 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

• If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

- A Moveable Feast, epigraph

Vladimir Nabokov

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