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.
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- Monsterpiece Theater spoofed The Old Man and the Sea (both the book and the 1958 film starring Spencer Tracy) as "The Old Man and the C," starring Grover in a boat atop a giant C.
- Another Monsterpiece Theater segment presented "The Sun Also Rises," in which Grover and Merry Monster are worried that the sun will not rise as the rooster is sick and cannot crow.
- In the Dog City episode "Who Watches the Watch Dog?", Ace Hart pops up in a book. The paragraph on the left page in the middle consists of the opening to A Farewell to Arms, with the opening from Death in the Afternoon below, in the lower left corner.
- The title of the Dinosaurs episode "The Son Also Rises" is a nod to Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
- In the Elmo's World episode "Bells," viewers are told to stay tuned for "For Whom the Bells Toll" starring Harry Bell-afonte.
- In another Elmo's World episode "Farms", The Farm Channel advisers viewers to stay tuned for "A Farewell To Farms", starring Jeannette Old MacDonald and Nelson Piggy.
- In the book What's in Oscar's Trash Can?, Oscar's bookcase contains copies of Old Man and the Grouch, The Grouch Also Rises, and A Farewell to Grouches.
The Old Man and the C
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway's prose on Dog City