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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. - Ernest Hemingway Attribution: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), U.S. author. quoted in A.E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway, pt. 1, ch. 4 (1966 edition). Hemingway’s assessment of William Faulkner was made after being informed (by Hotchner) that Faulkner considered that Hemingway “had no courage” and “had never been known to use a word that might send the reader to the dictionary.”

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Ernest Hemingway

Titles by Ernest Hemingway:

• A Canary for One
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
• A Farewell to Arms
• After the Storm
• An Alpine Idyll
• Big Two-Hearted River
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Hills Like White Elephants
• In Another Country
• In Our Time
• Indian Camp
• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
• The Garden of Eden
• The Killers
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• The Soldier's Home
• The Sun Also Rises
• To Have and Have Not
• True at First Light

Salem on History:

• Ernest Hemingway

eNotes:

• Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms (A Farewell to Arms)
• Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)
• Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises)
• Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea)
• Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
• Ernest Hemingway (Hills Like White Elephants)
• Ernest Hemingway (In Another Country)
• Ernest Hemingway (A Clean, Well-Lighted Place)
• Ernest Hemingway (The Snows of Kilimanjaro)
• The Hit in Summit: Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers” (The Killers)
• Ernest Hemingway (The Killers)

Videohound Movie Retriever:

• Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

American Decades:

• Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 (1920's The Arts)
• Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 (1950's The Arts)

Encyclopedia:

• Hemingway, Ernest [Miller] (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Hemingway, Ernest Miller (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)

Primary Sources:

• Hemingway, Ernest (Roaring Twenties)

Salem on Literature:

• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Magill Book Reviews)
• Ernest Hemingway (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
• Ernest Hemingway (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
• Ernest Hemingway (Identities and Issues in Literature)
• Ernest Hemingway (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
• Ernest Hemingway (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
• Ernest Hemingway (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
• Ernest Hemingway (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)

Literary Criticism:

• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 1) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 6) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Miller) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 8) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 13) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 3) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 19) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Vol. 10) (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Contemporary Literary Criticism)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway (Short Story Criticism)
• Hemingway, Ernest (Short Story Criticism)
• A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Ernest Hemingway (Short Story Criticism)
• The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (Short Story Criticism)
• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)
• The Influence of Ernest Hemingway (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• Ernest Hemingway is born
• Ernest Hemingway is seriously wounded during an Austrian assault on the Italian Front, in World War I
• Ernest Hemingway publishes his first work between hard covers, Three Stories and Ten Poems
• Ernest Hemingway publishes the story collection in our time
• Ernest Hemingway publishes The Sun Also Rises
• Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms
• Max Eastman publishes “Bull in the Afternoon,” a retrospective article attacking Ernest Hemingway's craft which enraged Hemingway and eventually led to a scuffle between critic and author
• Ernest Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Ernest Hemingway publishes The Old Man and the Sea
• Ernest Hemingway receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Old Man and the Sea
• Ernest Hemingway receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Ernest Hemingway dies
• Renata Adler receives the Ernest Hemingway Prize for best first novel for Speedboat