Historical Figure
Ernest Hemingway
1899–1961
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
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Key Dates
Death
1961 July 2, 1961 →Biography
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Timeline
The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
October 21 →The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
September 1 →More from the Postwar
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