The author I have chosen for my research paper is the one and only Ernest Hemingway, I will analyze and comment on the criticism towards him. Ernest Hemingway is one of the most recognized writers in literature and has received numerous prizes for his works such as the Nobel Prize for his astounding contribution to literature, the Pulitzer Prize for his world renowned book "The Old Man and the Sea" and the Award for Merit from Academy of Arts & Letters (Baker). These prizes cannot begin to describe the influence and greatness of the famous Ernest Hemingway. I will begin with a short biography on Mr. Hemingway and follow this up with the outweighing positive literary criticism over negative ones.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 and died by committing suicide on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho. Ernest Hemingway life was similar to that of a regular upper middle class family but this would all change when he graduated in 1917 and took a job with the Kansas star reporting on police and hospital stories. Readers noticed his unconventional way of reporting violence, despair and emotional unrest. His next job, which I think plays a distinct role in the realism that he portrays in his writing, was an ambulance driver in World War I in Italy. It was in Italy that he fell in love and got married in 1921 and settled down to write stories to support his family and successfully did so. Ernest Hemingway was a very criticized author whether it was good or bad still he managed to overcome it all and write some of the most interesting novels and short stories that still impact literature to this day. In my opinion Hemingway was a man above them all. I will now follow on with the positive criticism of Ernest Hemingway.
"One of the great writers of our time . who, honestly and undauntedly, reproduces the genuine features of the hard countenance of the age." (Sanderson).