Ernest Hemingway

About the author

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) stands as one of the defining voices of American literature, celebrated for an economical, understated prose style that shaped generations of writers. Raised in Oak Park, Illinois, he worked as a journalist before serving as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front in World War I, an experience that fed his 1929 novel A Farewell to Arms. His Paris years among the Lost Generation expatriates produced The Sun Also Rises (1926).

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) drew on the Spanish Civil War, while The Old Man and the Sea (1952) won the Pulitzer Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.