Ernest Hemingway, a preeminent literary figure of the 20th century moved
to
Key West in 1928, living there periodically until 1940. Hemingway
wrote all or part of his most famous works including
A Farewell to Arms,
For Whom the Bell Tolls, and
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
in Key West. In 1954, Ernest Hemingway became only the fifth American
to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also was awarded a
Pulitzer Prize for his novel
The Old Man and the Sea.
Ernest Hemingway, himself a great sportsman, liked to portray soldiers,
hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage
and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who
in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose,
his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are
particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected
in
Men Without Women and
The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories
Death and violence were the two great constants in Hemingway's troubled,
chaotic life. Fifty-one years later, Ernest Hemingway used a gun to
kill himself. He was a tough, strong man with strong principles.
Hemingway "believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could only have
one end", yet he was blessed with talent and drive. That may have made
it harder for him to admit his failures and correct them. Hemingway died
in Idaho in 1961. In 2001, two of his books, The Sun Also Rises and A
Farewell to Arms, would be named to the list of the 100 best
English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of
the American Modern Library.
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