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Hemingway
Hemingway's Front Seat to the Spanish Civil War
Ernest Hemingway returned to Spain to cover the civil war for the North American Newspaper Alliance, reporting alongside Collier's writer Martha Gellhorn. Beginning a three-year affair, the two stayed at the Hotel Florida, where other correspondents also resided to witness the events, despite its close proximity to a Loyalist communications center, making it an unintended target of enemy shells.
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Hemingway writes The Old Man and the Sea but is overcome by mental illness.
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Hemingway, having achieved literary fame, goes to report on the Spanish Civil War.
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Hemingway moves to Paris and finds success with his second novel, A Farewell to Arms.