Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Before becoming a writer, Hemingway worked as a journalist for several years. His debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, garnered mixed reviews when it was initially released, but it has now become a classic modernist masterpiece.

The Old Man and the Sea, his final major work of fiction, earned the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and is widely recognized as a twentieth-century masterpiece. Ernest Hemingway was given the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 for "his mastery of the art of narration, most recently exhibited in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the impact that he has exercised on current style," according to the Nobel Committee. Hemingway's contemporary writing style had a tremendous effect on twentieth-century literature. He is largely considered to be one of America's greatest writers of all time.

Famous Novels: The Old Man and the Sea (1952), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), A Farewell to Arms (1929),...