Ernest Hemingway
(1899–1961)

Ernest HemingwayAnecdote...

Hemingway's son Patrick asked his father to edit a story he had written. Hemingway went through the manuscript carefully, then returned it to his son. "But, Papa," cried Patrick in dismay, "you've only changed one word."

"If it's the right word," said Hemingway, "that's a lot."


Biographical Note...

U.S. writer. His longer fictional works include "The Sun Also Rises" (1926) "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940), and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952). A keen sportsman and hunter, he extolled courage and stoicism in his books, which were written in a simple, terse style. Subject always to severe depressions, he committed suicide in 1961.


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