Composition 1023 "Ernest Hemingway: How His Novels Tell of His Real Life Story" Ernest Hemingway, who was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, was legend in his own time, and is now a legend in our time. Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. ... Hemingway was known as an "expert in the areas of war, bullfighting, deep-sea fishing, boxing, big-game hunting, and reckless, extravagant living--experiences that he often recounted in his fiction" (Shaffer 1). ... She instead left him for an older man very abruptly. ... These men, Jake Barnes, Fredric Henry, and ...

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On the date of July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway, a now known brilliant writer, was born. ... He surprised many of the critics when the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was published.. ... Two years later he received the Nobel Prize for his "powerful, style-making mastery of the art or modern narration- (Griffin 1) for The Old Man and the Sea. ... Santiago from "The Old Man and the Sea- is a hero because he was courageous and was not afraid of death. ... Most of the source material for The Old Man and the Sea comes from Hemingway's own experiences fishing off the coast of Cuba. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ernest Hemingway is a writer who writes from his own experiences in life. ... His other works include; In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, A Movable Feast, and Islands in the Stream. His writings stretch from 1925 until 1970 and this is what makes Hemingway one of the most brilliant and wonderful writers of our time. In 1917, the United States was involved in World War 1 and the young Hemingway was a part of it all. ... Hemingway set his story in Italy a place this is often forgotten. ...

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• Grade Level: High School