Pagine1899–1961 · Oak Park, Illinois · also known as Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway’s short, plain sentences — built from his newspaper training — changed how the 20th century wrote. He was wounded as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy in World War I, then joined the American writers in 1920s Paris. The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929) made his name; For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) drew on the Spanish Civil War; and The Old Man and the Sea (1952) won the Pulitzer Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Begin with The Old Man and the Sea.
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Ernest Hemingway’s short, plain sentences — built from his newspaper training — changed how the 20th century wrote. He was wounded as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy in World War I, then joined the American writers in 1920s Paris.
The Old Man and the Sea is usually considered Ernest Hemingway’s best-known work, followed by The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Most readers start with The Old Man and the Sea.
Both refer to the same writer.
Many of Ernest Hemingway’s works are in the public domain; we link to free editions below.