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Earnest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899
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On September 1913, Ernest Hemingway enters Oak Park and River Forest high school and does boxing, football, and writes for the school paper and yearbook.
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In 1917, Ernest Hemingway graduated from high school, opts not to go to college and becomes a cub reporter for Kansas City Star newspaper.
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In 1926, his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, is published and critically acclaimed.
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In 1929, A Farewell to Arms is published which allows him to be financially independent because of it’s success.
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On Sept. 1, 1952, he publishes The Old Man and the Sea, which awards him the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
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On Dec. 10, 1954, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the fifth American author to receive the award.
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On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway commits suicide after suffering through depression, alcoholism, and many health problems. He shoots himself with a shotgun.
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Ernest Hemingway is still very important today because of how he wrote. He would be able to describe many different ideas, objects, and many others with very few words while still fully describing it in great detail. He also describes life when he was living is some books he has written which allows people to see what he thought about the world and what the world around him was like.