“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”

― Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 and passed away July 2, 1961. He was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated writing style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while later generation admired his adventurous lifestyle and public image. Ernest Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. During his life, he published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of Hemingway’s novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously and many of his works are considered classics of American literature.