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**Earnest Hemingway**  Earnest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Commonly reffered to as one of America's famous writers. During 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but couldn't attend because he was recovering from injuries acquired in a plane crash. Some of his earliest works were short stories and poems posted in the high school newspaper. After graduating high school in 1917, he worked at The Kansas City Reporter for six months. After the job at the Kansas City Reporter didn't work out, he joined the volunteer ambulance in Italy. Over in Italy he suffered a severe leg wound that would leave him hospitalized for several months where he meet an American nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky. His expirences with Ms. von Kurowsky and the Italian army had given him the motivation and building blocks for the book __A Farewell to Arms__. During Hemingways lifetime he has written books like __Men Without Women__, __Winner take Nothing__ and __To Have and Not Have__. In 1960, Hemingway was attending the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota to be treated for signs of depression. After living a eventful live where he had three wifes, traveled to many countries in 3 continents, and wrote many novels and short stories; on July 2, 1961 he commited suicide with his favorite shotgun. www.people.cornell.edu A Farewell to Arms is a novel about Lt Henry's (who is an American fighting for the Italian Army) his life and adventures during WWI. During the war he becomes friends with his fellow officers, the priest who often makes Lt Henry ponder about his life decisions, Catherine Barkley who he is quite fond of, and many others. The novel follows his adventures in the advances of the Italian Army and the retreats. Henry and Catherines history starts to unravel when they meet at the English hospital where they are introduced by Rinaldi. Then in order to find out the rest of the books secrets like how Catherine and Henry have to run away from the Italian Army, or how Henry will end up being in the hospital from a severe leg wound, you will just have to read A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway. I would prefer the book to anyone who loves action books with a little romance on the side. It is a wonderful book and i had fun reading it. It took me a while to finish it though so be prepared to read. I thought it best to look beyond the names of the cities and just look how they started in order to not be confused.
 * Ernest Hemingway**
 * A Farewell To Arms**
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