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He was born in Illinois
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His job during the World War I, was as an ambulance driver in Italy.
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During this years he produced most of his books
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It was first published as a vignette or chapter.
In the story, a World War I soldier and a nurse named "Luz" fall in love as she tends to him over the course of three months in the hospital. They decide to marry, but when the soldier returns home to the United States, he receives a letter from "Luz" with the news that she has fallen in love with an officer. Later she writes that she hasn't married, but the soldier ignores her. -
Is a novel set during the Italian campaign of World War I.
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It tells the story of a writer, Harry, who faces almost immediate death in Africa from gangrene. A rescue plane is to fly in and rescue him, but his prognosis is grave.
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Which won the 1953 Pulitzer.
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He committed suicide.
He probably killed himself accidentally while cleaning the weapon.
