His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He stares at the woman, and the sight of her inspires his writing. He goes to work in a caf, where he sees a beautiful woman. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. Hemingway begins by describing the bad weather during the winter in Paris and the cafs filled with alcoholics. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.Įrnest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein tender memories of his first wife, Hadley and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F.

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.'

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway