There was one single woman in Normandy on D-Day, a rogue war correspondent who stowed away in the toilet of a hospital ship and also happened to be the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days in 1954. He was presumed dead almost 24 hours later until he was spotted coming out of the jungle carrying bananas and a bottle of gin

James Joyce was good friends with Ernest Hemingway whom he often leaned on to finish the fights he'd start at bars.
Ernest Hemingway is one who has never been known to use a word that might send the reader to a dictionary.
Ernest Hemingway is alone of living writers in having saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and also of the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.
Ernest Hemingway was thought paranoid for saying the FBI was tracking him. They were, heavily.
Ernest Hemingway's characters do not produce children, although, between drinks, they long for them.
Ernest Hemingway is one who got hold of the red meat of the English language and turned it into hamburgers
Ernest Hemingway is a man who must be a very great genius to make up for being such a loathsome human being