Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist whose terse yet implication-laden style almost singlehandedly reshaped American prose, both fiction and non-fiction. This style was not only a strategy for writing but reflected his view that man was measured by actions uncluttered by words and by achievements shorn of pretensions. Winner of the 1954 Novel Prize in Literature, he published seven novels and an ample collection of short stories. His verse, which was occasional and almost invariably satirical, exhibits perhaps more clearly than his prose the influence that fellow American writers (and fellow expatriates in Europe at the time of their meeting), Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), had on his body of work.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American novelist whose terse yet implication-laden style almost singlehandedly reshaped American prose, both fiction and non-fiction. This style was not only a strategy for writing but reflected his view that man was measured by actions uncluttered by words and by achievements shorn of pretensions. Winner of the 1954 Novel Prize in Literature, he published seven novels and an ample collection of short stories. His verse, which was occasional and almost invariably satirical, exhibits perhaps more clearly than his prose the influence that fellow American writers (and fellow expatriates in Europe at the time of their meeting), Ezra Pound (1885-1972) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), had on his body of work.
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