“I would have been happy — happier — today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.”
About Ernest Hemingway
21 July 1899–2 July 1961
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a prosperous suburb west of Chicago, and died on 2 July 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. He became one of the most recognizable writers of the twentieth century: novelist, short-story master, journalist, war correspondent, celebrity, sportsman, and, in his…