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Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He is considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Hemingway's writing style is characterized by its simplicity, clarity, and understatement. His fiction is often set in exotic locales and features strong, often self-destructive characters.

Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and began his writing career as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. He served in World War I as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. After the war, he moved to Paris, where he became part of the expatriate community. In the 1930s, he traveled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War, and in the 1940s, he served as a war correspondent in World War II.

Hemingway's most famous works include the novels *The Sun Also Rises* (1926), *A Farewell to Arms* (1929), *For Whom the Bell Tolls* (1940), and *The Old Man and the Sea* (1952), and the short-story collections *In Our Time* (1925), *Men Without Women* (1927), and *Winner Take Nothing* (1933).

Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 for *The Old Man and the Sea* and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his "powerful, stylistically innovative writing". He died by suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1961.