Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Recognised as one of the most influential writers of the 20th-century.

 

Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. 

 

And received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.

 

He served in WW1 as an ambulance driver and then as a war correspondent.

 

His debut novel, “The Sun Also Rises”, was published in 1926.

 

Hemingway then wrote “A Farewell to Arms”, published in 1929.

 

Hemingway was on secondment as a war correspondent for the Spanish Civil War in around 1937. Those experiences are said to have formed the backbone for his novel, “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, which was written in Havana, Cuba and published in 1940.

 

In 1952, Hemingway wrote “The Old Man and the Sea”, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 

 

He died by suicide at his home in Idaho, USA, in 1961.

 

Novels

 

Hemingway’s novels include:

 

• The Sun Also Rises (1926)

• A Farewell to Arms (1929)

• To Have and Have Not (1937)

• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)

• Across the River and into the Trees (1950)

• Islands in the Stream (1970)

• The Garden of Eden (1986)

 

His novels:

 

• Islands in the Stream was published posthumously by authority of his wife, Mary Hemingway;

• The Garden of Eden was also published posthumously after Hemingway’s death with authority of the Hemingway estate.

 

A further non fiction book, “The Dangerous Summer” was published in 1985 authored by James Michener but based on manuscripts earlier written by Ernest Hemingway before his death.

 

Novellas 

 

Hemingway also wrote the following novellas:

 

• The Torrents of Spring (1926); and

• The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

 

Other Works

 

Hemingway published a number of other short story collections and non-fiction titles during his lifetime.

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Film and Television

A number of Hemingway's books were adapted for movies and televisions, such as:

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• For Whom the Bell Tolls, released in 1943 starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman;

• A Farewell to Arms, released in 1957 starring Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones;

• The Old Man and the Sea, released in 1958 and starring Spencer Tracy.​