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Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961 and excerpts from A Very Short Story

Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961 and excerpts from A Very Short Story. On the morning of June 7, 1918, 18 year-old Hemingway stepped off a train at Milan's Garbaldi Station and assumed the duties of a Red Cross ambulance driver. Hemingway and his two pals were quickly sent to work in Milan.

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Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961 and excerpts from A Very Short Story

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  1. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961 and excerpts from A Very Short Story

  2. On the morning of June 7, 1918, 18 year-old Hemingway stepped off a train at Milan's Garbaldi Station and assumed the duties of a Red Cross ambulance driver. Hemingway and his two pals were quickly sent to work in Milan. http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/ambulancedriver.htm http://www.cnn.com/interactive/specials/9907/hemingway.pictorial.biography/frameset.exclude.html

  3. source: http://www.pbs.org/hemingwayadventure/lost_gen.html Hemingway began his serious fiction career in Paris. source: http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/book-2251

  4. When Hemingway was older, he lived in Cuba, bought a boat, and became a serious fisherman. source: http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/photogallery.php source: http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/photogallery.php

  5. Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea at his home in Cuba and it was first published in LIFE magazine in 1952. He won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature. source: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hemingway/nobel-essay.htm source:http://www.originallifemagazines.com/searchmagazine_view.php?id=1680

  6. excerpts fromA Very Short Story http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/europe/special/italyreg.htm

  7. One hot evening in Padua they carried him up onto the roof and he could look out over the top of the town. There were chimney swifts in the sky. After a while it got dark and the searchlights came out.

  8. On the train from Padua to Milan they quarreled about her not being willing to come home at once. http://goitaly.about.com/od/italypictures/ig/Milan-Pictures/milan-train-station.htm When they had to say good-bye, in the station at Milan, they kissed good-bye, but were not finished with the quarrel. He felt sick about saying good-bye like that.

  9. Pordonne Photo source:http://www.travelpost.com/EU/Italy/FriuliVenezia_Giulia/Pordenone/map/6972070 He went to America on a boat from Genoa. Luz went back to Pordonone to open a hospital. It was lonely and rainy there, and there was a battalion of arditi quartered in the town.

  10. Chicago The major did not marry her in the spring, or any other time. Luz never got an answer to the letter to Chicago about it. A short time after he contracted gonorrhea from a sales girl in a loop department store while riding in a taxicab through Lincoln Park. photo source: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_cities/chicago.jpg

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