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Hemingway
Hemingway's Home in Cuba, the Finca Vigía
In the spring of 1939, Ernest Hemingway returned to Havana, Cuba where Martha Gellhorn would later join him. Martha rented the Finca Vigía, a 10-acre property outside the city where they could live together, which Hemingway would eventually buy and would become his home for the next two decades.
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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.