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VINTAGE CLASSICS THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - ER...

Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899  the second of six children. In 1917  he joined
the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year  he volunteered as an ambulance
driver on the Italian front  where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He
returned to America in 1919  and married in 1921. In 1922  he reported on the Greco-Turkish war
before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris  associating
with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with
bullfighting  big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in
contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 
following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea . He died in 1961.

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