Ernest Hemingway · every age
What was Ernest Hemingway doing at 53?
Wounded at 18, famous at 27, Nobel at 55
- Sep 1, 1952
The Old Man and the Sea appears in Life magazine
5.3 million copies sold in two days. He had drafted it in eight weeks, furious at critics. It won the Pulitzer in May 1953.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Portrait: Photo: Lloyd Arnold (1939), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
