Ernest Hemingway

colorized by Jecinci // Hemingway was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and noted sportsman. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 // source: facebook.com/jecinci

There’s so many lovely quotes out there that I could read over and over and over again. There’s also so many that make my eyes roll (Exhibit A: “You have as many hours in a day as…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald thought his fellow writer and (sometimes) friend Ernest Hemingway possessed the most dynamic personality in the world and “always longed to absorb into himself some of the qualities that made Ernest attractive.” Other friends and observers of Hemingway remarked on the “strange power of his presence,” his “poise and strength,” and a […]

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LIFE.com presents pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba in 1952 -- and the unsettling, untold story behind the making of the photos.