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Son of Clarence and Grace Hemingway
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He leaves the newspaper and attempts to join the U.S. Army so that he can fight in World War I. The Army rejects him because of poor eyesight, so he volunteers as a driver with the Red Cross Ambulance Corps.
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Hemingway is seriously injured by a trench mortar and machine gun. The blast leaves shell fragments in his legs. The Italian government awards him a Silver Medal of Military Valor for dragging a wounded Italian soldier to safety after the attack, but his career as an ambulance driver is over. While recuperating in a Milan hospital, Hemingway falls in love with an American nurse six years his senior named Agnes von Kurowsky. They make plans for her to join him in the United States.
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Hemingway returns to the United States. Agnes soon writes to him to tell him that she has fallen in love with an Italian officer. Hemingway is heartbroken.
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3 September 1921 - 10 March 1927 (divorced) 1 child
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10 May 1927 - 4 November 1940 (divorced) 2 children
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5 November 1940 - 21 December 1945 (divorced)
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14 March 1946 - 2 July 1961 (his death)
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Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the 5th American author to recieve this prize.
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3 of the most famous novels by Hemingway were published after his death, and one was unfinished.
