Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was an American writer, journalist, and war correspondent. After leaving high school, he initially worked as a local reporter. During the First World War, he served as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy and was seriously wounded. Hemingway wrote novels and short stories; his best-known works include the novella *The Old Man and the Sea* (1952), which earned him the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway died in 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho.