Ernest Hemingway (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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The son of a Midwest doctor, Ernest Hemingway began his writing career as a reporter for the Kansas City Star. In 1918, he went to Italy, where he drove a Red Cross ambulance in World War I and was wounded by machine gun fire. After recuperation, he returned to Europe as a war correspondent, but he soon gave up journalism to write fiction.

His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, portrays the lost generation of expatriates who wandered Europe in the wake of World War I. A Farewell to Arms tells the story of an American lieutenant...

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