Ernest miller hemingway biography

Legacy

• Although his prose seems a bit simple to the uninitiated, it is actually a direct way of telling a complex story.
• Hemingway is regarded as one of the finest American authors.

A Modernist Writer of the Lost Generation

• One of the foremost authors of the era between the two world wars, Hemingway in his early works depicted the lives of two types of people.
• One type consisted of men and women deprived, by World War I, of faith in the moral values in which they had believed, and who lived with cynical disregard for anything but their own emotional needs.
• The other type were men of simple character and primitive emotions, such as prizefighters and bullfighters.Hemingway wrote of their courageous and usually futile battles against circumstances.