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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick uncover the man behind the myth.

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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explore the writer and his enduring influence.

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Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explore the writer and his enduring influence.

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Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn reported alongside each other during the Spanish Civil War.

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Ernest Hemingway returned to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War.

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After a hurricane killed 259 veterans, Hemingway took aim at the Roosevelt administration.

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Senator John McCain discusses his hero Robert Jordan of "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

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In 1946, Hemingway married Mary Welsh, a Time and Life correspondent he met during WWII.

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On Sept. 3, 1939, Ernest Hemingway told Pauline he was leaving her for Martha Gellhorn.

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In 1939, Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba and bought the Finca Vigía with Martha.

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In the summer of 1953, Ernest and Mary survived two plane crashes while in Africa.

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Hemingway was inspired to write "The Sun Also Rises" during his travels across Spain.