Famous authors · 20th century
Ernest Hemingway
1899 to 1961 · American · Literary fiction
What sets their writing apart: Study Hemingway for omission: short declaratives, hard nouns and the iceberg method, where what is left out carries the weight. A model for restraint and implication.
Notable works
- In Our Time (1925)
- The Sun Also Rises (1926)
- A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
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