Hemingway, Ernest

A twentieth-century American author; one of the lost generation of Americans living in Paris during the 1920s. In such books as A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls , and The Old Man and the Sea , he glorified heroic male exploits, such as bullfighting, boxing, and safari hunting. Hemingway is known for his simple, short sentences and his lively dialogue.

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In the edited conversation below, Earley, 53, talks of Ernest Hemingway, technical challenges, and stumbling toward the light.

Year after year they have to endure the torment of being required to live up to the role that Ernest Hemingway gave them.

After all, Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century.

The writers he most closely followed in style were Ernest Hemingway for novels and Frank Graham for everything else.

Admission to the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Old Town Key West includes a guided tour and all the cats you can pat.

As Ernest Hemingway said when asked if he ever anticipated failure, "If you anticipate failure, you'll have it."

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