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Hemingway's love of nature and writers' discipline were instilled in him from a young age.
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Edna O'Brien reads a passage from Ernest Hemingway's short story, "Up in Michigan."
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During his time in Italy during WWI, Ernest Hemingway suffered life-threatening injuries.
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Two years' worth of Hemingway's work was lost on a train from Paris when he was just 23.
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In 1939, Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba and bought the Finca Vigía with Martha.
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Senator John McCain discusses his hero Robert Jordan of "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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In the summer of 1953, Ernest and Mary survived two plane crashes while in Africa.
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Ernest Hemingway returned to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War.
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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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After a hurricane killed 259 veterans, Hemingway took aim at the Roosevelt administration.