Most Famous Person in the World: Writers and Artists
Ernest Hemingway
Living years: 1899-1961
Nationality: American
Masterpiece: The Old Man and The Sea, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, etc.
Hemingway’s classic American literature has influenced fiction and the culture that abounds today. He was born in Illinois, and was a journalist in Kansas City. Eventually he became a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross which led him to the front line of the Italian trench war. His book A Farwell to Arms depicts his adventure in the war and his being sent home due to a wound during mortar fire. He was a well-traveled journalist who wrote a few books intermittently. He remained in pain from plane crashes and eventually committed suicide in the summer of 1961.
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