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Ernest Hemingway is another outstanding person. He is one of the greatest American writers. Ernest was born in Illinois in 1899 into the family of a doctor. In childhood Ernest went in for sport and was a great sportsman. He was also a very bright student at school. He wrote poetry and prose for the school magazine.
In 1914 World War I began, and Hemingway joined the Army. He was sent to Italy and was badly wounded there. Later he was awarded a silver medal by the Italian government. The war made a great influence on his future work.
In 1920 Ernest returned to the United States and started working as a foreign journalist in a newspaper. But his dream was to write novels. He travelled a lot to get material for his work. In 1929 his first novel, A Farewell to Arms, was published. It made Hemingway famous. In this novel he protests against war. In 1936 Hemingway went to Spain and took part in the Civil War. Later he wrote another novel called For Whom the Bell Tolls. It was devoted to the Americans who died in the war for Spain.
During World War II Hemingway was a war journalist. In 1954 he was given the Nobel Prize for literature for his last novel The Old Man and the Sea which was called the best of his works. Ernest Hemingway died in 1961 by shooting himself in Cuba
Martin Luther King (1929-1968)
Martin Luther King was another outstanding person of the United States. He was the first black American who won the full civil rights for black people.
Martin Luther King was born in 1929 in Atlanta, to the family of a black pastor. He graduated from the University of Boston where he got a doctor's degree in theology in 1955. Later he was a pastor of a Baptist church in Montgomery where black people lived in strong limitation of their civil rights. The blacks of the city followed King who believed in peaceful protests against the government. Black people of the city went to restaurants and demanded the same rights as white customers. They sat there for hours until they were served. A lot of them were arrested.
In 1963 a big march took place in Washington, D.C. It was organized by Martin Luther King. About 250,000 Americans took part in it. In 1968 King was lolled by a white man and the nation was shocked. Martin Luther King still remains a great Person in American history and there is Martin Luther King Day in the USA when people remember what he did for the black people of the country.
