Ernest Hemingway

American, 1899–1961

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist and journalist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His spare, understated prose style revolutionized modern fiction, and novels such as A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea established him as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Hemingway's life as a war correspondent, sportsman, and expatriate was as legendary as his fiction.