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On The Old Man and the Sea Introduction Ernest Miller Hemingway, born on July 21, 1899 and died on July 2, 1961, was an American author and journalist. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. He once was a reporter after high school, and then he left for the Italian front to enlist with the World War I ambulance drivers. In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home. His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway had many ups and downs in marriage after 1922. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. The Sun Also Rises, Hemingways first novel, was published in 1926. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously. Many of these are considered classics of American literature. The Old Man and the Sea is a novel written in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and was cited by the Nobel Committee as a contribution to the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952, Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him ill-health for the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and 1940s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed sui