Ernest Hemingway

<p>The preeminent American novelist and short story writer of his time, Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) wrote provocative fiction steeped in the experiences of the "lost generation" that came of age during World War I. Hemingway's four best-known books — <i>The Sun Also Rises</i>, <i>A Farewell to Arms</i>, <i>For Whom the Bell Tolls,</i> and the Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>The Old Man and the Sea</i> — highlight the author's trademark economy of style while depicting lives shaped by futility, frustration, and disappointment. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.</p>