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Resources for A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

This source shares Hemingway’s life including the early stages of his childhood, his military experience, his career in literature, and his legacy that influence writers today. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/speech/

In 1954 Hemingway received a Nobel Prize in Literature. This source contains the script of Hemingway’s speech that was read when he received this Nobel Prize. Hemingway was ill at the time of the banquet, but he later read and recorded his speech. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1954/hemingway/speech/

This source talks about Hemingway’s experience during WWI and his injuries he suffered on the Italian front. This article explains the event that Hemingway describes in his book, A Farewell to Arms, where he was struck by a mortar shell that hit is leg. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ernest-hemingway-wounded-on-the-italian-front