Ernest Hemingway

American · 1899–1961

Ernest Hemingway stripped English prose to its bones. The Nobel laureate developed a style of short declarative sentences and understated emotion that transformed American fiction. His early novels—"The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to Arms"—captured the disillusionment of the Lost Generation through hard-drinking expatriates and doomed romance. "The Old Man and the Sea" won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize and secured his 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded for his "powerful, style-making mastery of the art of narration." Journalist, sportsman, and war correspondent across three conflicts, Hemingway built a mythology around masculine adventure that proved both influential and confining.

Books by Ernest Hemingway

• The Old Man and the Sea (1953)
• The Sun Also Rises (1926)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
• A Farewell to Arms (1929)
• To Have and Have Not (1937)
• A Moveable Feast (1964)
• Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)
• Islands in the Stream (1970)
• Death in the Afternoon (2000)
• In Our Time (1925)

Recognition

• Nobel Prize in Literature (1954)
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)