Who Was Earnest Hemingway?

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Earnest Hemingway; the interesting man with many different roles. He was born in 1899 in Illinois and started his career of writing at the young age of seventeen while working at a newspaper office located in Kansas City. Hemingway wrote many different novels, including his most famous works: “The Old Man and the Sea”, “To Have and Have Not”, and “The Sun Also Rises”.
Earnest Hemingway was an important part to American Literature because of his unique writing style about very unique ideas. An example of some of his unique work is “The Old Man and the Sea”. In the book “The Old Man and the Sea”, Hemingway wrote about his experiences about attempting to defend his reputation as a great writer, based on the story of an old Cuban fisherman. In

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