Multiple choice general knowledge

This writer shot himself in the foot while cleaning his rifle. He later on committed suicide at the age of 61. Identify the writer?

  1. Leo Tolstoy

  2. Ernest Hemingway

  3. Alistair Maclean

  4. Oscar Wilde
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Explanation

Ernest Hemingway accidentally shot himself in the foot while cleaning his rifle in 1941, and later died by suicide at age 61 in 1961. His struggles with depression and deteriorating health are well-documented, making this a tragic but fitting biographical detail. Tolstoy died of pneumonia at 82, Wilde of illness at 46, and Maclean lived to 64.

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