Ernest hemingway (1899- 196 1) is a famous American novelist. Born into a family of doctors. An ambulance driver of the Red Cross was injured in the front line of Italy during World War I. Later, he went to France as a foreign correspondent of Toronto Star and began to publish his works in newspapers and periodicals. The first collection of short stories, In Our Time, was published on 1925. In the 1940s, the famous book The Sun Also Rises was published, which described the confusion, hesitation and disillusionment of a group of young people living in Europe after the war. This novel is called the masterpiece of the lost generation. The collection of short stories, Men Without Women (1927) and Winner Without Income (193), created a "tough guy character" who was fearless in times of crisis and died, and established his position as a master of short stories. The novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) describes the tragedy of a couple whose happiness was destroyed by the war, based on his experience in the Italian battlefield. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) takes anti-fascism as the theme and describes the heroic sacrifice spirit of an American volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. These two anti-war novels are regarded as masterpieces of modern world literature. The novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952) describes a Cuban fisherman's indomitable spirit in the face of failure and won the Pulitzer Prize. Other works include Death in the Afternoon (1932), Castle Peak in Africa (1935), Being or Not (1937), Crossing the River into the Forest (1950) and so on.

Hemingway's works are unique in style, not only concise in style, but also vivid in language, which has a great influence on American literary circles. Hemingway 1954 won the Nobel Prize in Literature.