Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist known for his distinctive understated writing style that influenced 20th century fiction. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899 to a physician father and musician mother. Some of his most famous novels include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1. Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist . His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement , influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s.

2. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois , a suburb of Chicago. His father Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a physician, and his mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician. Both were well-educated and well-respected in the conservative community of Oak Park.

3. Famous novels and stories The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea A Moveable Feast True at First Light

4. Hemingway´s most famous book is OLD MAN AND THE SEA. He got the Nobel prize for it.