The Old Man and the Sea - ERNEST HEMINGWAY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, United States, on July 21, 1899. Taking aturbulent life, Hemingway was married four times.

Hemingway was a journalist before becoming a novelist; after leaving high school he went towork for The Kansas city star, as a cub reporter.

In the summer of 1933, Hemingway traveledto Africa for a three-month safari. In 1940 Hemingway purchased a home outside Havana, Cuba. He would live there for the next twenty years, fishing and writing. He Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

On the morning of July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, took the hunting rifle andshot himself.