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Ernest Miller Hemingway

American novelist, short story writer & journalist


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got Nobel Prize in literature in 1954

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Lost Generation was generation that came of age during


World War I. it was popularized by Ernest Hemingway

trilogy tentatively titled "The Land", "The Sea" & "The Air", he
wanted to combine in one novel entitled 'The Sea Book'
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Hemingway wrote his only play The Fifth Column

in 1947 awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery during World War II

or called Fiesta

The Sun Also Rises (1926)


about a group of American & British expatriates who
travel from Paris to the festival of San Fermin in
Pamplona to watch the running of Bulls & the Bullfights

A Farewell to Arms (1929) set during Italian campaign of World War I

non-fiction by Hemingway about the ceremony &


Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Ernest Hemingway traditions of Spanish Bullfighting
(1899-1961) Noteable Works
in Spain in 1937, he produced this
To Have and Have Not (1937)
revealed a new attitude of mind that a
solution to the ills of the world

story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades


For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
attached to a republican guerrilla unit during Spanish Civil War

In 1952, he got the Pulitzer Prize

The Old Man and the Sea (1951)


he said "The best I can write ever
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Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)

Indian Camp (1926) short story

The short Happy life of Francis Macomber (1935)

Important Works A Movable Feast (published posthumously in 1964)

In 1948, when Hemingway traveled to Europe he fell in love with


Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)
Adriana Ivancich, this love affair inspired him to write this novel

The Garden of Eden (1986)


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Under Kilimanjaro (2005)
American Authors
Man at War (1942)

Short Stories In Our Time (1924)

Everyman's Library: The Collected Stories (1995)

The Green Hills of Africa (1935) Autobiographical

Non-Fiction A Movable Feast (1964): Memoirs

Death in the Afternoon (1932)

Thomas Lanier Tennessee Williams III

Who
American playwright &
author of many stage classics

Tennessee Williams In 1979, he was inducted into the


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(1911-1983) "American Theatre Hall of Fame"
set in 1941-43 in New York, St. Louis & Los Angeles

Spring Storm (1937)


closely reflecting his own unhappy family background

The Glass Menagerie (1945) a four character memory play

chief character Amanda Wingfield


Stairs to the Roof (1947)
Play, opened on Dec 3, 1947 and closed in Dec 17, 1949

got Pulitzer Prize in 1948


A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
The 'Poker game' is the key point of this play

Summer and Smoke (1948) play ends with Poker game continues uninterrupted

The Rose Tattoo (1951)


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Important Works Camino Real (1953) set in the "Plantation home in the Mississippi Delta
of Big Daddy Pollitt a wealthy cotton tycoon"

Cat on a hot Tin Roof (1955) got Pulitzer Prize

play examines the relationship among


Sweet Bird of Youth (1959) member of Big Daddy's family

stage play based on his 1948's


The Night of the Iguana (1961)
short story of same name

The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

A House Not Meant to Stand (1982)

The Milk Train Doesn't Stop here Anymore

A Masks Outrageous and Autere his last play

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