Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961. Ernest Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Illinois started his career as a newspaper writer at the age of seventeen. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. The book which convinced the Nobel Committee that they needed to (finally) recognize Ernest Hemingway as one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. The Old Man and the Sea Paperback January 1, 1981.

Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.Ībout the Author Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. The Old Man and the Sea is a novel2 written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. Book Synopsis Ernest Hemingway's most beloved and popular novel ever, with millions of copies sold-now featuring early drafts and supplementary material as well as a personal foreword by the only living son of the author, Patrick Hemingway, and an introduction by the author's grandson Seán Hemingway.

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