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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Hemingway, Ernest Miller 1899-1961. American writer. A World War I ambulance driver, journalist, and expatriate in Paris during the 1920s, he wrote short stories and novels, such as The Sun Also Rises (1926) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952), that concern courageous, lonely characters and are marked by his terse literary style. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961)
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“I faced what I called my Hemingway complex: I was neither Hemingway nor was I married to a Frenchman nor did I have a country house where I could talk about the encounter with the contractor and the plumber and the farmer down the road.”
“I came across him in Hemingway and Baily's Bartending Guide to Great American Writers, a book about sloshed writers and their favorite sauces.”
“Mariel Hemingway is the woman who answers their ad, which stirs up a little tension among the three men.”
“Faulkner wouldn't mind, though Hemingway is probably annoyed that you didn't mention him.”
“I am thinking how, of all classic American writers, Hemingway is the one who writes exclusively of death, in its manifold forms; “The perfect man of action is the suicide,” William Carlos Williams once observed, and surely this was true of Hemingway.”
“He was referring specifically to the way the magical city stays with you, even after you've gone, but it's also true that Paris is very much the same city that it was in Hemingway's time.”
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“Hemingway is supposed to have advised that you “write drunk, revise sober.””
“Oh, and Hemingway is impossible not to love, as long as you start with For Whom the Bell Tolls and follow through with Farewell to Arms. Posted by:”
“Yes, Ernest Hemingway is dead and no, I did not have a run in with his ghost.”
“Where Hemingway is bombast and operatic, she is elegant and moving. on 02 Jul 2009 at 4: 27 pm Nancy Laughlin”
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