Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer known for his economical and understated style.

He wrote seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works, many of which are considered classics of American literature.

Hemingway's adventurous lifestyle and public persona contributed to his fame.

He served as an ambulance driver in World War I and worked as a journalist during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

He struggled with depression and ill health in his later years and died by suicide in 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho.