Ernest Hemingway - Facts about his life

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Here are some facts about Ernest Hemingway and his life:

1. American writer.
2. Died at the age of 62 (source)
3. He published 21 books that mostly consisted of small stories, poems etc. Two of his works were published after his death. (source)
4. During the 1st World War and at the age of 19, he was deployed in Italy, as a soldier serving his country. (source)

Did you know?

1. Ernest Hemingway survived two airplane accidents in 1954 while being in Africa (source)
2. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1952 (source) and the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 (source)
3. His mother was an opera singer, something that he, himself, hated. However he would listen to classical music for his rest of his life (source)
4. He got married 4 times (source) and his wives were: Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn and Hadley Richardson 

Quotes:

1. "The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them" - Ernest Hemingway, Selected letters 1917-1961.
2. "Courage is grace under pressure" 
3. "There is no friend as loyal as a book"  (source)

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