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ERNEST HEMINGWAY

Well known portrait by Helen Breaker, 1928 By the mid 1930’s, Hemingway was on his way to becoming the best known fisherman in America. Shown here with a marlin catch, his passion became the setting for the novel, The Old Man and the Sea. The hunter - with a dead leopard, 1953

Writing during a Safari in Africa, 1953 As an ambulance driver during World War I when he served in battles in the north of Italy. ‘Farewell to Arms’, his first novel was based directly on this experience. Author of "The Old Man and the Sea"