By- Sukumar Saha.

Columnist- The Daily Ananta Bangla.

He was an American novelist, short-story writer & journalist. He published 7 novels, 6 short-story collections and some fiction & non-fiction books. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. To sum up, Hemingway, in his novels & stories, presents human life as a perpetual struggle which ends only in death. His succinct & lucid prose had a powerful influence on the 20th century fictions.

His father was a doctor & he was the 2nd of 6 children. For a few years, he worked as an ambulance driver on world war 1 at the Italian front where he was badly wounded & returned home.

He got married to 4 ladies named Hadley, Pauline, Martha & Mary. He had 3 kids named Jack, Patrick & Gloria.

The first international recognition received by Hemingway was the Pulitzer Award in 1953. In 1954, observing his unequal & incomparable spawning in the arena of contemporary literature as reflected in "The Old Man and the Sea" , he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.

He was found dead on 02 July 1961, by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, USA, where he lived with his wife, Mary.