Biography of Ernest Hemingway.
The beginning of the contemporary era embarks the journey of a new style of writing in literature in some of the literary figure. The name Ernest Miller Hemingway was a phenomenal at that time. He was born in Cicero or Oak Park, Illinois, on 21 July 1899. Ernest was raised in Chicago and also in Northern Michigan by his parents Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing his story collection In Our Time. He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the 1953 Pulitzer. In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize. He committed suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.
The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it took it setting upon Santiago. A story about an aging fisherman who has gone 84 days without catching a fish, struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954.
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway
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