Ernest Hemmingway author page

Ernest Hemingway biography

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short story writer and journalist. He was part of the “Lost Generation” of writers who came of age during the First World War.

Hemingway’s major works include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). His writing style, marked by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction worldwide.

He reported on wars in Europe and beyond, and many of his stories drew on these experiences. In 1953 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea, and in 1954 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.