Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was a novelist and short story writer. He was the author of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

He is a great fish and I must convince him, he thought. . . . thank God, they are not as intelligent as we who kill them; although they are more noble and more able. The Old Man and the Sea, 1952.

 

The trunks of the trees went straight up or slanted toward each other. The trunks were straight and brown without branches. The branches were high above. Some interlocked to make a solid shadow on the brown forest floor. Big Two-Hearted River, In Our Time, 1925.