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Ernest Hemingway

1899 - 1961

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Ernest Miller Hemingway ( HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Hemingway is the 42nd most popular writer (down from 32nd in 2019), the 44th most popular biography from United States (down from 35th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Writer.

Ernest Hemingway is most famous for his novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

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Among writers, Ernest Hemingway ranks 42 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Frank, George Orwell, Charles Dickens, Matsuo Bashō, Hermann Hesse, and Emily Dickinson. After him are Horace, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alexander Pushkin, Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Schiller, and Aristophanes.

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Among people born in 1899, Ernest Hemingway ranks 2. Before him is Huang Xianfan. After him are Jorge Luis Borges, Alfred Hitchcock, Frederick IX of Denmark, Al Capone, Lavrentiy Beria, Vladimir Nabokov, Yasunari Kawabata, Friedrich Hayek, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, and Humphrey Bogart. Among people deceased in 1961, Ernest Hemingway ranks 2. Before him is Carl Jung. After him are Erwin Schrödinger, Zog I of Albania, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, Lee de Forest, Jules Bordet, Gary Cooper, and Percy Williams Bridgman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ernest Hemingway ranks 44 out of 20,380. Before him are Madonna (1958), Pocahontas (1595), Martin Scorsese (1942), Joseph Smith (1805), Emily Dickinson (1830), and Michael Jackson (1958). After him are Al Gore (1948), George W. Bush (1946), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Walt Disney (1901), Maria Callas (1923), and George Marshall (1880).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ernest Hemingway ranks 4. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), T. S. Eliot (1888), and Emily Dickinson (1830). After him are F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929).

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