Author
Ernest Hemingway
Birth Date
July 21, 1899
(61 Years)
Death Date
July 2, 1961
Associated Country
United States
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, widely regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He was born in Oak Park and began his career as a journalist before serving as an ambulance driver during World War I, an experience that deeply influenced his writing.
Hemingway became known for his distinctive, economical prose style—often called the “iceberg theory,” where much of the meaning lies beneath the surface. He was part of the expatriate literary circle in Paris during the 1920s, alongside writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, and gained early fame with The Sun Also Rises (1926). His later works, including A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), solidified his reputation.
In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for his mastery of narrative and his influence on modern prose. His novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952) also earned the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Known for his adventurous life and global travels, Hemingway remains a central figure in American literature.
Hemingway became known for his distinctive, economical prose style—often called the “iceberg theory,” where much of the meaning lies beneath the surface. He was part of the expatriate literary circle in Paris during the 1920s, alongside writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, and gained early fame with The Sun Also Rises (1926). His later works, including A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), solidified his reputation.
In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for his mastery of narrative and his influence on modern prose. His novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952) also earned the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Known for his adventurous life and global travels, Hemingway remains a central figure in American literature.
Books
Originally privately published in Paris, Three Stories and Ten Poems holds an interesting history. The three stories “Up in Michigan,” “Out of Season,” and “My Old Man” were first seen in this...
Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much...
When it was first published in 1935, The New York Times called Green Hills of Africa, “The best-written story of big-game hunting anywhere,” Hemingway’s evocative account of his safari through East...
The Last Interview 2015
Hemingway was not only known for his understated style, but for his public image as America’s greatest author and journalist—and for the grand, expansive, adventurous way he lived his life. The...
Hemingway on Fishing 2012
From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family’s summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and pieces of journalism...
First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer—a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the...
True At First Light 2000
A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a...
Hemingway's stories are famous for being so powerful, tough and convincing that it is difficult to not get stunned by their dramatic intensity. From the Nobel Laureate's splendid oeuvre, here are...
Still considered one of the best books ever written about bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon reflects Hemingway's belief that bullfighting was more than mere sport. Here he describes and explains...
To Have and Have Not 1999
To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat....
In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway’s most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White...
Spanning the years 1920 to 1956, this priceless collection of articles and letters shows Hemingway's work as a reporter, from correspondent for the Toronto Star to contributor to Esquire, Colliers,...
Displaying early humor and wit, Ernest Hemingway’s charming and entertaining novella, The Torrents of Spring, is a hilarious parody of Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter. Anderson was one of many...
The Dangerous Summer 1997
In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War, in order to see friends and follow bullfighting events....
A Farewell to Arms 1997
Known for its autobiographical elements, A Farewell to Arms tells the story of Frederic Henry, an American lieutenant stationed in Italy during World War I. There, he meets and falls in love with an...
Men Without Women 1997
Published in 1927, Ernest Hemingway’s second collection of short stories, Men Without Women, explores themes of alienation, loss, and grief. Hemingway examines men who are estranged from the women in...
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first extended visit to Italy in thirty years. His reacquaintance with Venice, a city he loved, provided the inspiration for Across the River and into...
A Moveable Feast 1996
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made...
Published in 1940, For Whom the Bell Tolls tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan is a young American in the International Brigades attached to...
The Sun Also Rises 1996
The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is set during an age of...
In Our Time 1996
Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, did more to change the style of fiction in English than any other writer of his time with his economical prose and terse, declarative...
The Garden of Eden 1995
A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the...
Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, has gone eighty-four days without catching a single fish. Dismissed as unlucky by others and pitied by those who know him, he remains determined to prove his skill...
The complete collection of Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams two dozen stories are gathered here in one volume, grouped together according to the major time periods in the protagonist's life. Based on...