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r^.) Important Writers and Literary Works y-Q 1. Earnest Hemingway (^W^f • •WfH.,U99—1961, |§B^%10 Earnest Hemingway was bom in 1898 at Oak Park, Illinois. In World War 1, he joined an American, ambulance unit, was seriously wounded but fascinated by the war. War and death later comprise a major part of his subject matter. In 1923, he published Tim Sun Also Rises ((^PHffil^?!-^)) . Financial success came in 1929 with A Farewell to Arms (OjC^lj J.JS,^}) • This novel is a masterpiece in which the author deals with the war directly. Its emotional impact is great and its war scenes are raw, vivid and true. In the late 1930s, with the outbreak of the Spanish War , Hemingway sailed for Spain and in 1940, For Whom. the Bell 11 6 Tolls ((^-^r^fi^-TFn - !)) , hs own favorite novel appeared. With Tlie Old Man and the Sea ((^A-^iS)) , he was awarded the 1953 Pulitzer Prize. In 1954, he . was awarded the Nobel Prize tor Literature. ^.;y^T? On July 2 , 1961, he killed himself with a gun , just as his father did . Indigenous to almost all of Hemingways novels is the concept of the Hemingway hero , who is usually a man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent . And usually he is a man of action and of few words. The Hemingway hero stand s for a whole generation , who possesses a kind of despairing courage. It is thi s courage that enables a man to behave l