Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
"A beautiful tale, awash in the seasalt and sweat, bait and beer of
the Havana coast. It tells a fundamental human truth: in a volatile
world, from our first breath to our last wish, through triumphs and
pitfalls both trivial and profound, what sustains us, ultimately,
is hope."
--The Guardian "His masterpiece... a perfect piece of work."
--Mario Vargas Llosa "The old man embodies the ambition and courage
it takes to live, and the need to redeem yourself again and again
in your own eyes. When at last after ntold agonies you hook the
prize, the achievement of a lifetime, the biggest damn fish out
there...it falls apart. The story is about the fact that life
ends--a hard-to-ignore truth that we spend our days ignoring. All
you have is the moment, this moment."
--Abraham Verghese "Here is the master technician once more at the
top of his form, doing superbly what he can do better than anyone
else."
--The New York Times
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