Ernest Hemingway was an American author born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He worked as an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I and was later wounded while serving in the infantry. He went on to write several acclaimed novels including The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea that explored themes of war, masculinity, and loss of faith. Hemingway won both the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature and was influential for his simple yet powerful writing style. He spent time living in various places before dying by suicide in 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho.

1. Ernest Miller Hemingway Birth July 21, 1899 Death July 2, 1961 Place of Birth Oak Park, Illinois "A man can be destroyed but not defeated." The Old Man and the Sea , (1952)