Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899, and committed suicide in Ketchum, Idaho, in July 1961. In 1953 he won the Pulitzer Prize, with The Old Man and the Sea, and in 1954 the Nobel Prize for Literature. Novels such as A Farewell to Arms or For Whom the Bell Tolls, in addition to the aforementioned The Old Man and the Sea, consecrated him as one of the great names of twentieth-century literature.