Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway, Ernest (1899–1961), U.S. novelist and short-story writer. His terse prose style was widely emulated. His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises (1926), chronicled the postwar experiences of what his friend Gertrude Stein called the lost generation of World War I. A Farewell to Arms (1929) and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) were based on his own experiences in World War I and the Spanish Civil War, respectively, and added greatly to his reputation as a writer. The Old Man and the Sea (1952) won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize, and he won the Nobel Prize for literature the next year. Increasingly depressed and ill in later years, he committed suicide.