Ernest Hemingway 1899 1961 was an American novelist and short-story writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writings and for his adventurous and widely publicized life A consummately contradictory man Hemingway achieved a fame surpassed by few if any American authors of the 20th century The virile nature of his writing which attempted to re-create the exact physical sensations h...