Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and journalist known for his spare, direct prose style, whose works, including The Old Man and the Sea, earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway began his career as a journalist before serving as an ambulance driver in World War I, an experience that deeply influenced his later fiction, including his novel A Farewell to Arms.
His distinctive writing style, characterized by short, direct sentences and understated emotional depth, became known as the 'Iceberg Theory,' influencing generations of writers who followed him.
Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and contributed to his Nobel Prize in Literature the following year. He died by suicide in 1961 after struggling with declining health and mental illness.