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“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”—The Old Man and The Sea Ernest Miller Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his works are classics of American literature. “His mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style.” “因为他精通于叙事艺术，突出地表现在其近著《老人与海》之中；同时也因为他对当代文体风格之影响.” The term “lost generation” was coined by Gertrude Stein, a lost generation writer herself, after World War I. It was between the first and second World Wars. Speaking to Ernest Hemingway, she said, you are all a lost generation. 1.Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. 2.Leaving for the Italian front to become an ambulance driver during World War I, which became the basis for his novel” A Farewell to Arms”. 3.In 1922 Hemingway married Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives, and the couple moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent. 4.His first novel, “The Sun Also Rises”, was published in 1926. 5.After divorcing Hadley Richardson in 1927 Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer; they divorced following Hemingways return from covering the Spanish Civil War, after which he wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. 6.Martha Gellhorn became his third wife in 1940; they split（断绝关系） when he met Mary Welsh in London during World War II. 7. “The Old Man and the Sea” was published in 1952 8.Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 40s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961. On safari in Africa(1934) “I