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Ernest Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants"

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[From The Norton Introduction to Literature]

(1899–1961)

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Ernest Hemingway became a reporter after graduating from high school. During World War I, he served as an ambulanceservice volunteer in France and an infantryman in Italy, where he was wounded and decorated for valor. After the war, he lived for a time in Paris, part of the “Lost Generation” of American expatriates such as Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Two volumes of stories, In Our Time (1925) and Death in the Afternoon (1932), and two major novels, The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), established his international reputation. Hemingway supported the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War—the subject of For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)—served as a war correspondent during World War II, and from 1950 until his death lived in Cuba. His novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952) won a Pulitzer Prize, and Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

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