HEMINGWAY: Greatest Short Stories

Ernest Hemingway, in full Ernest Miller Hemingway, was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S. and died on July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho, American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on American and British fiction in the 20th century.