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K.E.S. Shroff College 2012-2013 English literature Project: authors By: Himmat patel F.Y. B.M.M Roll no: 33
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Ernest Miller Hemingway Born :July 21, 1899 Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.Oak Park, Illinois Nationality : American Education :Public schools in Oak Park, Published earliest stories and poems in school newspaper, Graduated from hs in 1917 Worked six months as reporter for Kansas City Star
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Nobel Prize Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1954) –Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953) Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Nobel Prize in Literature –Silver Medal of Military Valor, – Italian Armed Forces (c. WWI) Bronze Star, United States Armed Forces (1947) Pulitzer Prize, The Old Man and the Sea (1953) American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit (1954) Nobel Prize for Literature (1954) Top Reporter of the Last Hundred Years, Kansas City Star (1999 )The Old Man and the Sea
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Novels Novels/Novella The Torrents of Spring (1925) The Sun Also Rises (1926) A Farewell to Arms (1929) To Have and Have Not(1937) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) The Old Man and the Sea (1952)The Old Man and the Sea Adventures of a Young Man (1962) Islands in the Stream (1970) The Garden of Eden (1986 ) Short Story Collections Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) In Our Time (1925) Men Without Women (1927) The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1932) Winner Take Nothing (1933) The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938) The Essential Hemingway (1947) The Hemingway Reader (1953) The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
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Major Works The Sun Also Rises (1924-1926) –First great success –Group of expatriates in France and Spain –Members of the Lost Generation –about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.Festival of San FermínPamplonarunning of the bullsbullfights
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Major Works A Farewell to Arms (1929) –Italian front in WWI –Two lovers find brief happiness For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) –In 1941 the Pulitzer Prize committee for letters unanimously recommended For Whom the Bell Tolls be awarded the prize for that yearPulitzer Prize
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Major Works The Old Man and the Sea (1952) –Cuban fisherman named Santiago (modeled off of a fisherman who worked on Hemingway’s boat) –Catches giant marlin after weeks of disappointment –Story of his journey with the marlin - comes back with nothing but won a spiritual battle
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