Ernest Hemingway
American writer · 1899–1961
Novelist and short-story writer whose economical prose style influenced 20th-century literature.
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist known for his spare, direct prose. Born in Illinois in 1899, he worked as a newspaper reporter before serving as an ambulance driver in Italy during the First World War. His wartime experiences later informed his fiction. In the 1920s, Hemingway lived in Paris and became associated with the group of expatriate writers known as the Lost Generation.
His major works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. He also reported on conflicts including the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His concise style had a lasting influence on modern prose. Hemingway died by suicide at his home in Idaho in 1961.
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A group of expatriates travel from Paris to Spain, confronting love, disillusionment, masculinity and the aftermath of the First World War.
An American ambulance driver and a British nurse pursue a relationship amid the violence and upheaval of the First World War.
A warning against another European war, examining dictatorship, propaganda, military ambition and the risks of American involvement.
An American volunteer joins Republican guerrillas during the Spanish Civil War and confronts love, duty, violence and sacrifice.
An ageing Cuban fisherman struggles with a giant marlin, testing his endurance, pride, skill and relationship with the natural world.
A posthumous collection of Hemingway’s observations on life, writing, love, death, work, character and the standards by which people live.
A memoir of Hemingway’s years in 1920s Paris, recalling his writing life, marriage, friendships and encounters with other expatriate writers.
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