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Ernest Hemingway – 1899-1961 born in Oak Park, Illinois

Ernest Hemingway – 1899-1961 born in Oak Park, Illinois landed a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star after graduating from high school rejected by the military because of an eye defect served as a Red Cross ambulance driver during WWI

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Ernest Hemingway – 1899-1961 born in Oak Park, Illinois

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  1. Ernest Hemingway – 1899-1961 • born in Oak Park, Illinois • landed a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star • after graduating from high school • rejected by the military because of an eye defect • served as a Red Cross ambulance driver during WWI • seriously wounded less than a month before his 19th • birthday • settled in Paris as a reporter after recuperating in Italy • was a member of the Lost Generation • won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 • books include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to • Arms (1929), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

  2. The Lost Generation – Describes the alienated American writers and artists of the post-World War I era who lived in Paris, France. Now turn to “In Another Country” by Ernest Hemingway page 735

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