Writer · 1899 – 1961

Ernest Hemingway

Wrote The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea, forging a stripped-down prose style that reshaped modern fiction and earned the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Major Works

  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls

Impact Analysis

Hemingway's stripped-down, suggestive prose changed how fiction was written, his influence visible in writers across the world for the rest of the century.

Historical influence score: 82/100

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