Daily Quiz for August 29, 2008

Ernest Hemingway. Nobel Prize winning writer Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Military Valor after being wounded in the leg by shrapnel in July 1918. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899, Hemingway enlisted in a Red Cross ambulance unit in 1917 during World War I. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and served on the Italian front. After WWI he reported from the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War for American newspapers. His book Farewell to Arms was based on his experiences in WWI. He died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.