Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His writing style,
characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced modern fiction, as 16 his life of adventure.
Hemingway started his career as a journalist at 17. In the 1920s, he was sent to Europe as a newspaper
correspondent to
17 such events as the Greek Revolution: During this period, he produced his early
important works, including The Sun Also Rises. Among his later works, the most outstanding is The Old
Man and the Sea (1952), which became perhaps his most famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer
Prize he had long been 18
Hemingway liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters-tough, at times primitive people whose
courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this 19 lose hope
and faith. His straightforward_prose is particularly effective in his short stories, some of 20 are
collected in Men Without Women (1927). In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He died in Idaho in 1961.
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