Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954, announced October 28, 1954. Ernest Hemingway, “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in <I>The Old Man and the Sea,</I> and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”. Ernest Hemingway: born 1899, Oak Park, IL, USA. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).