Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist who influenced the structure of how 20th-century fiction was written. His most notable writings include The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and Hills Like White Elephants. Throughout the extent of his career, he published 7 novels, 6 collections of short stories, and 2 nonfiction works, many of which are now considered classics. The wartime experiences of Ernest Hemingway served as inspiration for his writing. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961 at the age of 61.