Ernest Hemingway was a man considered one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His novels and short stories led to him receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He is known for his adventurous and highly publicized life and his masculine public persona. His writing is seen as a bridge that links together the old world and the new world, Victorian and modern, life and death. Hemingway wrote about things he knew, leaving a personal effect on his readings. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois (which was then known as Cicero). His parents Grace and Dr. Clarence Hemingway were very strict and religious but taught him to enjoy nature. Knowing how to enjoy nature when the Hemingways vacationed at their home in northern Michigan, one-year-old Ernest Hemingway was not afraid to explore his surroundings. When he was enjoying nature he would run around with a stick in his mouth and then fall and let the stick stick in his throat. This would not be the last time Hemingway would suffer a serious injury. His father gave him inspiration for Hemingway's writing, such as the Agassiz Club in Oak Park, Illinois. The club taught the children about nature and Christianity, teaching them how God is more powerful than all and creates everything. Furthermore, the club showed how war is made by humans and not by nature. That humans should be feared and nature loved, these ideas about less than perfect people are shown in his books and stories. When Ernest Hemingway was at school it was already noticeable how interested he was in reading and writing. he read different varieties of writing which led him to write in the school newspaper. When Hemingway...... in the center of the paper...... experiences in his book The Sun Also Rises. Excitement soon overtook him when his stories about our times were published, soon proving to the world that he was not like other writers and that he had his own style. His style would be simple, he wants the reader to feel like they are there using basic grammar, "open" endings that don't directly inform what is going on, and word choice to compensate for his unique style. Taking inspiration from what Gertrude Stein told him “that the writer must not say too much; the reader uses imagination and logic” (Pingelton). Comparing the idea to an iceberg that says writing that reveals too much would be boring and not as powerful. His type of writing he liked to make him famous, which he loved, he loved popularity and meeting new people in Paris. People admired his strength, war stories, knowledge of literature and honest style.