Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was one of the most celebrated and influential literary stylists of the twentieth century. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on 21st July, 1899. He started his career as a writer in a newspaper office. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.
His first important work was ‘The Sun Also Rises’. Equally successful was ‘A Farewell to Arms’, the study of an American ambulance officer’s disillusionment in the war. In 1952, his world famous work, ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ was published. A short novel about an extraordinary battle between a tired old Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
Hemingway died in Idaho, US in 1961.
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