Ernest Hemingway
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*He wrote mainly about sports
*Right after he graduated, he went to work for the Kansas City Star
*He was an ambulance driver in the Italian army
*He was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery
*He was injured in war, and met a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky, who accepted his marriage proposal, but soon left him
*When he went back to the US, he took a job at the Toronto Star
*In 1923, Ernest and Hadley had a son named John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway
*In 1926, Ernest published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises
*After the book was published, Hadley and Hemingway divorced
*Hemingway soon after got married to Pauline Pfeiffer (they were having an affair when he was married to Hadley)
*He divorced and went on to wife number three, Martha Gellhorn
*When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Hemingway served as a correspondent and was present at sever of the war's key moments, including the D-Day landing
*He eventually divorced and moved on to his third and final wife, Mary Welsh
*In 1951, Hemingway finally won the Pulitzer Prize with his most famous book, The Old Man and the Sea
*Through his retirement, he struggled with deteriorating mental and physical health
*On the morning of July 2, 1961, Ernest commited suicide at his home
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