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Ernest Hemingway
said
In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more.
— "In Another Country" in Men Without Women (1927).
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
- Fame88.9
- Momentum0.2
- Global rank#215
Source-basedStable
- Fame88.9
- Momentum0.2
- Global rank#215
- United States rank#60
- Writers rank#35
- Wikipedia296.6K
Lived 1899–1961, aged 62United States
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Updated 2026-07-17
The prose stripped to bone, the life lived at full tilt — Hemingway made both a style and a performance, and American writing bent toward his example. Novels that became syllabus fixtures, a Nobel, a public persona built on bullfights and wars and hard drinking, then the shotgun in Idaho.
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Raised in suburban Oak Park, Illinois, he broke for The Kansas City Star after high school, then drove ambulances on the Italian Front in World War I until shrapnel tore through him in 1918. By 1921 he'd landed in Paris as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, falling in with the Lost Generation expatriates who pushed him toward the lean modernist line that became his signature. The Sun Also Rises arrived in 1926, followed by A Farewell to Arms in 1929, both mined from the war years. He spent the 1930s in Key West, then Havana, covering the Spanish Civil War in 1937 — which fed For Who…
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Ernest Hemingway
said
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out.
— About his book, The Sun Also Rises in a letter (21 August 1926); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by
Ernest Hemingway
said
I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
— Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Ernest Hemingway
said
Write me at the Hotel Quintana, Pamplona, Spain. Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something
— Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1 July 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Ernest Hemingway
said
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore.
— Letter to Sherwood Anderson (23 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
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Historical34.7
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Source confidence65.0
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