2022-2023 AP Lang and Comp Paper: Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. As one of the writers of the “lost generation,” he gave a voice to the uncertainty of the American experience in the post—World War I world, addressing the moral void left by the first mechanized war. Hemingway had an enormous influence on twentieth-century American literary style, refining the craft of the short story and changing the way in which fictional characters spoke. His work tells us specifically about Americans in the twentieth century, home and abroad, as well as showing us that concerns of love, honor, and bravery are universal and will endure. Hemingway was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953 for his novella, The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

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