Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) is one of the most famous American writers of the 20th century. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His novel usually focuses on people living essential, dangerous lives--soldiers, fishermen, athletes, bullfighters--who meet the pain and difficulty of their existence with stoic courage. Many of his works are classics of American literature.
自1923年起,海明威陸續發表了許多作品,其中以《太陽依舊升起》(The Sun Also Rises, 1926)、《戰地鐘聲》(For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940)、《老人與海》(The Old Man and the Sea, 1952)最為人所熟知。《老人與海》更分別在1953年及1954年為他拿下普利茲獎和諾貝爾文學獎。