When he graduated from high school in 1917, he chose journalism instead of college and spent seven months as a newspaper reporter. While driving a Red Cross ambulance in Italy in 1918 he was severely wounded by shrapnel. Who was he?

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The life of this iconic American author was as dramatic and adventurous as his fiction. After graduating from high school in 1917, he famously chose a newsroom over a classroom, taking a job as a cub reporter for The Kansas City Star. The newspaper's style guide, with its emphasis on short sentences, vigorous language, and directness, became the foundation (Review) for the famously lean and powerful prose that would later win him a Nobel Prize in Literature.

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When he graduated from high school in 1917, he chose journalism instead of college and spent seven months as a newspaper reporter. While driving a Red Cross ambulance in Italy in 1918 he was severely wounded by shrapnel. Who was he?

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