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Ernest Hemingway dedicated his whole life to writing; while experiencing love and war he never ceased to impress. -After WW1 started, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit for the Italian Army. (Just like Henry!) -He was wounded in the war, and spent lots of his time in the hospital. (Just like Henry!) -He was brought up in a very religious household, but as he grew older, he spaced himself away from religion -Hemingway got the title of his book from George Peele's poem, "A Farewell to Arms" -Born in Oak Park, Illinois -Started writing for a newspaper at 17 - During his lifetime, he was awarded with: Silver Medal of Military Valor (medaglia d'argento) in World War I Pulitzer Prize in 1953 (for The Old Man and the Sea) Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 (also partly for The Old Man and the Sea) In 2001, two of his books, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, would be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. - born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois to Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway -He was the second of six children -Adventurous kid, liked fishing and hunting -Great student, best class was English -Editor of the school paper, worked for the literary magazine -1918 he started working for the army -married Elizabeth Hadley Richardson on September 3, 1921 -1920's were extremely productive writing years for Hemingway -1927: split from Elizabeth, and married Pauline Pfeiffer -On December 6, 1928, Hemingway was dealt a devastating emotional blow as his father, suffering from severe diabetes and concerned about his financial future, shot himself -Hemingway continued to write producing what many critics still feel is the best novel ever written about World War I. //A Farewell to Arms// was published in 1929 and solidified Hemingway's reputation as one the greatest writers of his generation. -In 1940, he married fellow writer and war correspondent Martha Ellis Gellhorn. It was a marriage that would last only five years. -He married fourth and final wife Mary Welsh Monks on March 14, 1946. -After a disappointing reception of his 1950 novel, //Across the River and into the Trees//, Hemingway rallied producing //The Old Man and the Sea// (1952), a short work that earned him a 1953 Pulitzer Prize and ultimately the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. -On July 2, 1961, in his home in Ketchum, Idaho, Hemingway died of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. His wife Mary found him and relayed word of her husband's death to the world. Ernest Hemingway was two and a half weeks shy of his sixty-second birthday. -He attend his mom's funeral when she died in June of 1951 -Hemingway did harbor a great deal of hatred for his mother. He seems to have held her partly responsible for his father's 1928 suicide -There are many rumors that Hemingway was a homosexual, but there is no evidence -Agnes Von Kurowsky was Hemingway's first real love interest. Before meeting her, he had been only faintly aware that the opposite sex existed. Agnes's beauty coupled with the kindness and gentleness she exhibited in her duties as a Red Cross nurse was too much for any red-blooded American boy to ignore. -It has been reported that during the last twenty years of his life, Hemingway got himself into the habit of consuming a quart of whiskey a day. -Hemingway did like to drink and was blessed with the ability to drink great amounts without showing the effects -Towards the end of his life when his health began to deteriorate and his doctors told him to lay off the bottle, he did, but only temporarily. Whenever he felt the urge, he would pick up the practice again. It wasn't the alcohol though that killed Hemingway in the end. It was a shotgun blast to the head. Hemingway was passionate about so many things in his life, alcohol just happened to be one of them. - In 1996, his granddaughter, actress Margaux Hemingway, would take her own life; she is interred in the same cemetery.
 * Ernest Hemingway's Life & Tying it to AFA**
 * Notes:**

Order words for emphasis: place strong words at the beginning and end of paragraphs. Place emphatic words at the end of sentence. Strong verbs create action. Take it easy on the -ings

Outline: Paragraph 1: Intro, thesis. Tell the reader what you're going to talk about, what the topic is, and AFA Paragraph 2&3: Talk about Hemingway's early life. His family. ESPECIALLY how he got into writing. (School groups, town newspaper). & talk about his experiences at war -> tie to AFA Paragraph 4: Love life, ties to AFA Paragraph 5: Later years of life

Nobel Prize Speech: //-Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.// //-I have spoken too long for a writer. A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.//
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