Ernest Hemingway



Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an acclaimed novelist whose works are considered classics of American literature. Often drawing from his own adventurous life, Hemingway's work is characterized by a crisp, distinct writing styles and by protagonists struggling against nature and war. Some of his most notable works include The Sun Also Rises (1926, his first major novel), A Farewell to Arms (1929), short stories like "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936), and 1952's The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year.