Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences, and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. Part of the expatriate community in the 1920s in Paris, the former journalist and WW I ambulance driver began a career of international fame. An aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, Hemingway created protagonists who were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and mental. He covered the Spanish Civil War, writing For Whom the Bell Tolls, the book some consider his true literary masterpiece, and he also covered WW II. He died in 1961.