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Ernest Hemingway
United States
Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for his novella The Old Man and the Sea. An American writer and journalist, he published the novels The Sun Also Rises 1926, A Farewell to Arms 1929, and For Whom the Bell Tolls 1940. He served as an ambulance driver in WWI and reported on the Spanish Civil War and WWII. He died by suicide in 1961 at age 61.