Ernest Hemingway was an American author born in Illinois in 1899 who became famous for his minimalist writing style. He served as an ambulance driver in World War I and was part of the "Lost Generation" of writers living in post-war Europe. Some of his major works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. He won the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature later in life but suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1961 at age 61.