Front:
Hemingway
WEST,
JUL
17
1989
USA 253040
FL
KEY
Back:
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
First Day of Issue: July 17, 1989
First Issue Location: Key West, Florida
One of the towering literary figures of the 20th century,
Ernest Hemingway received the Nobel Prize for literature
in 1954. Affectionately known as “Papa," he was a master
storyteller, encapsulating the most complex human
dreams and fears in straightforward plots and simple
words. Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak
Park, Illinois. His father was a doctor of medicine and an
avid hunter and fisherman — introducing young Ernest to
some of the themes which filled his later works. It was
when Hemingway decided to forego college and become
a reporter that he began writing, eventually guided in
Paris through his first creative efforts by expatriates Ezra
Pound and Gertrude Stein, then later covering the Span-
ish Civil War. From almost the beginning, his vast abilities
were evident. His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises,
made him a world literary figure at age twenty-seven. His
total creative output of six novels and fifty short stories,
brought to a close by ill health and suicide in 1961, is
among the most influential American prose.
No. 89-21
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Original painting by Dennis Lyall
