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What author won a Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize then committed suicide seven years later?
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Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for his novella, The Old Man and the Sea, then won a Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1954. He committed suicide in 1960, after a long struggle with depression.
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Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He tragically took his own life in 1961 at the age of 61.
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