Ernest Hemingway

1899–1961

26 standalone books

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist who wrote seven novels, six collections of short stories, and two works of non-fiction during his lifetime. Three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works were published after his death in 1961. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he worked as a reporter before serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, where he was seriously injured. He married Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, where he became a foreign correspondent and was influenced by the 1920s expatriate "Lost Generation." His first novel, The Sun Also Rises, was written in 1924. He later married Pauline Pfeiffer and Martha Gellhorn, and covered the Spanish Civil War. He wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and lived in Cuba, where he also covered World War II. He married Mary Welsh Hemingway and wrote Across the River and Into the Trees. His most famous work, The Old Man and the Sea, was published in 1952. Hemingway's writing style was marked by brevity and understatement, and his works are considered classics of American literature.

Born

1899