Ernest Hemingway’s distinctive writing style influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. Hemingway wrote seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works between the 1920’s and the 1950’s, ultimately winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954; three non-fiction works were also published posthumously. His works are considered classics of American literature, but at the same time most have been routinely banned by governments around the world.
All of his material was burned in the Nazi bonfires of 1933 Germany for “being a monument of modern decadence.” But if you’re thinking such things were isolated to foreign lands, guess again. In 1962 the group “Texans for America” opposed any textbooks which mentioned books by Hemingway.
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