The American author, Ernest Hemingw

The American author, Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, was from early boyhood single-minded in his ambition to write. On leaving high school, he joined a local Kansas newspaper as a trainee reporter. Hewent on to become foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star and used his extraordinary experiencesin Europe and later Cuba to inform his writing. In his words,“I decided that 1 would write one story about eachthing that I knew about." Having set himself this goal,he wrote novels and short stories based on his personalexperiences of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War,bullfighting and deep-sea fishing, amongst others. His short novel The Old Man and the Sea, about the three day epic struggle between an elderly fisherman and the biggest fish he had ever caught, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.He would later go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.