Ernest Hemingway

Born in 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story-teller, and journalist, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote the majority of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. Many of these are considered classics of American literature.

In 1926 he published The Sun Also Rises, his first successful novel. Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer’s disgust with the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway's most ambitious work, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), was inspired by his experiences as a reporter during Spain's civil war.

Among his later works, the most notable is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman’s journey, his long and lonely fight with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.