The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist known for his economical, understated style that significantly influenced 20th-century literature. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, he served as an ambulance driver in World War I, lived among the "Lost Generation" expatriates in Paris, and covered major conflicts like the Spanish Civil War and World War II, drawing from these experiences for works such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 before dying by suicide in Ketchum, Idaho.