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A Farewell to Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway, born on this day, 21st July 1899- 2 July 1961, was  An american novelist & short-story writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, Noted for the intense masculinity of his writing & adventurous life,  Succint & lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American & British fiction in the 20th century,  Educated in Public schools & beginning to write in high school, he was active & outstanding.   Parts of his boyhood that mattered most were summers spent with his family on Waloon Lake in upper Michigan,  Advised & encouraged by other American writers in Paris -F. Scott Fitzerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, he began to see his nonjournalistic work appear in print, 📚🕮📚📚 In 1925, his first important book, a collection of stories called "In Our Time", was published in New York City,  In 1926, he published "The Sun also Rises", with which he scored his first solid success,  Hemingway's "The Tor...

On a day like this, 1931: American novelist Toni Morrison is Born

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"The pieces I am, she gathered them and gave them back to me in all the right order" -Toni Morrison February 18, 1931, (Lorain, Ohio, US) Tony Morrison, the American writer noted for her examination of Black experience, especially Black female experience, is born. The central theme of Morrison's novels is the black American experience; in an unjust society, her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity. Her use of fantasy, her sinuous poetic style, and her rich interweaving of the mythic gave her stories great strength and texture. Morrison's first book, "The Bluest Eye" (1970), is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent Black girl who is obsessed by white standards of beauty and longs to have blue eyes. [...]. In 1992 Morrison released "Jazz", a story of violence and passion set in New York City's ...