Ernest Hemingway: Despite receiving a "D" on an Oak High School literary assignment because his handwriting was illegible, Hemingway is revered as one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century. Hemingway wrote this check the same year that Death in the Afternoon was published. Hemingway wrote his simple Last Will while in Cuba, many years before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot injury in 1961.   This Ernest Hemingway autograph check reproduction would look great in an album or display.