hemingway

and speaking of......hemingway. We remember Ernest Miller Hemingway mainly for his undeserved reputation as a high living, boozing, and sometimes cantankerous old 'has been writer,' living out his life in decadent Key West. However, few men have been more maligned and misunderstood. He was actually an American giant of literature, as a much acclaimed and accomplished author and journalist. His distinctive writing style influenced 20Th-century fiction as did few others. Many of his works are classics of American literature and in 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. While on an African safari in 1952, he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Click to the Wikipedia entry for a well rounded and enlightening account of his half century of accolades and accomplishment........