Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is often romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle, and outspoken and blunt public image. Most of Hemingway's works were published between the mid-1920s and mid-1950s, including seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works. His writings have become classics of American literature; he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, while three of his novels, four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously.
Hemingway working on For Whom the Bell Tolls at the Sun Valley Lodge, 1939
Hemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace.
Hemingway in uniform in Milan in 1918, where he drove ambulances for two months until he was wounded.
Hemingway's 1923 passport photo; at this time, he lived in Paris with his wife Hadley and worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star Weekly.
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also includes literature produced in the United States in languages other than English.
Main reading room at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
Captain John Smith's A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Noate as Hath Happened in Virginia ... (1608) can be considered America's first work of literature.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1793)
The opening of the original printing of the Declaration, printed on July 4, 1776, under Jefferson's supervision.