Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. At eighteen, an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross on the Italian front, he was gravely wounded by a mortar round that killed an Italian soldier beside him. A journalist in Paris in the twenties, encouraged by Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, he worked out there a prose of short sentences and dialogue almost without commentary. A correspondent in Spain and then in France in 1944, a fisherman in Cuba, a hunter in Africa, he received the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his mastery of narrative and his influence on the style of his time. He died in 1961 in Idaho.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelA Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway · 1929Literature
• NovelThe Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway · 1952Literature