Ernest Hemmingway author page

Ernest Hemingway biography

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. After leaving school, he worked as a reporter for The Kansas City Star before volunteering as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross in Italy during the First World War.

His early fiction included the story collection In Our Time, published in 1925. His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1926 and was issued in the UK as Fiesta by Jonathan Cape in 1927.

Hemingway’s other major novels include A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Across the River and Into the Trees. His short fiction includes the collections Men Without Women, Winner Take Nothing and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.

The Old Man and the Sea, published in 1952, tells the story of Santiago, an ageing fisherman, and his struggle to land a marlin. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.

Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The Nobel citation recognised his mastery of narrative art, with particular reference to The Old Man and the Sea, and his influence on contemporary prose style.