Ernest Hemingway

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American novelist and Nobel laureate (1899–1961) known for his economical prose style and iceberg theory of writing. A war correspondent and big-game hunter, his adventurous life was as legendary as his fiction.

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The Old Man and the Sea

An aging Cuban fisherman struggles alone at sea with a giant marlin for three days, only to have it devoured by sharks on the way back to shore. The novella won the Pulitzer Prize and is widely cited as a factor in Hemingway's Nobel Prize.

1952 United States

For Whom the Bell Tolls

An American volunteer fighting for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War spends three days behind enemy lines preparing to blow up a bridge. One of Hemingway's longest and most politically engaged novels.

1940 United States

A Farewell to Arms

American lieutenant Frederic Henry serves as an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I and falls in love with English nurse Catherine Barkley. A classic anti-war novel that draws on Hemingway's own wartime experiences.

1929 United States

In Our Time

A collection of short stories and vignettes alternating between Nick Adams's experiences in Michigan and brief sketches from the war. Hemingway's first major work, which established his minimalist "iceberg theory" style.

1925 United States

Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Jake Barnes, a World War I veteran rendered impotent by his wound, travels with a group of expatriates from Paris to Pamplona for the running of the bulls. Hemingway's debut novel defined the "Lost Generation" of American writers in Europe.

1926 United States

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