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Hemingway

American  
[hem-ing-way] / ˈhɛm ɪŋˌweɪ /

noun

  1. Ernest (Miller), 1899–1961, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist: Nobel Prize 1954.


Hemingway British  
/ ˈhɛmɪŋˌweɪ /

noun

  1. Ernest. 1899–1961, US novelist and short-story writer. His novels include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952): Nobel prize for literature 1954

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Mr. Fiennes’s chapter on Paris skips the well-documented antics of Ernest Hemingway and Henry Miller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Rhys said the boat is "part of Brooklyn history" and is the same class of boat that acclaimed author Ernest Hemingway previously owned.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

It was an incredible journey, and it was kind of inspired by Hemingway, in a way, it was the same class of boat that he had.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Its most famous patron, Ernest Hemingway, sits in statue form alone at the bar in the musty, sweltering darkness.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

This wasn’t Graetz on Jewish history, he told me, or Minkin on Hasidism, or Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, and Dickens.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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