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He was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, the son of a doctor who took him fish
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July 21

Hemingway Born: Master of Modern American Prose

He was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, the son of a doctor who took him fishing and hunting before he could read. Ernest Hemingway published The Sun Also Rises at 27. A Farewell to Arms at 30. He was shot at in three wars, survived two plane crashes in Africa in two days, was hospitalized seventeen times. He won the Nobel Prize in 1954. A journalist once asked him what he considered the most essential gift for a good writer. He said: 'an immovable sense of what is shit.'

July 21, 1899

127 years ago

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