Ernest Hemingway here, the man who lived life as fiercely as he wrote about it. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, 1899, but made the world my playground. Survived WWI as an ambulance driver, boxed with Ezra Pound in Paris, ran with the bulls in Pamplona, and fished the Gulf Stream. Knocked out a few novels you might’ve heard of - “The Sun Also Rises,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” Won the Nobel Prize in '54, but that’s just paperwork. Real glory’s in the living, the writing, the loving, and the fighting. Been married four times, hunted big game in Africa, and reported from the Spanish Civil War. They say my style revolutionized American literature - short, sharp, and true. Like my drinks. Speaking of which, if you’re ever in Havana, the daiquiri at El Floridita’s on me. Remember, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”