Ernest Hemingway – 20th-century American writer, author of The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls, Nobel laureate (1954). His “iceberg” style became a modernist hallmark. He wrote of war, courage, and loss, shaping generations of writers.
🎣 A passionate fisherman and hunter, nature infused his prose. 📰 Began as a reporter at The Kansas City Star, learning brevity. ⚔️ Served in WWI as an ambulance driver. 💔 Multiple marriages and affairs coloured his fiction. 🐂 Loved bullfighting, captured vividly in The Sun Also Rises. 🎬 Many of his novels were adapted in Hollywood. ✍️ His “iceberg theory” hides meaning beneath the surface. 🏆 Won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. 🛩 Survived two plane crashes within days in Africa. 🏠 Lived in Cuba at “Finca Vigía”, now a museum. 🍸 Favoured cocktails, especially daiquiris and mojitos. 😂 Curiosity: once gave his cat a typewriter to “play” with. 😄 Amusing fact: his cats had six toes – their descendants still roam his house.