Ernest Hemingway — a remark

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“God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.”

An unusually fierce expression of his distrust of professional literary criticism · Letter to Sherwood Anderson, 23 May 1925

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Ernest Hemingway

21 July 1899–2 July 1961

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb west of Chicago, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He became one of the most recognizable writers of the twentieth century: novelist, short-story master, journalist, war correspondent, celebrity, sportsman, and, in his…

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