Who wrote 'A Moveable Feast' and 'The Old Man and the Sea'?

"The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Moveable Feast" are works by the American writer Ernest Hemingway.

About "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952):

It is a short novel about Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has gone 84 days without catching a fish.

He goes far out into the Gulf Stream and hooks a giant marlin. After a long struggle of three days, he kills it, but sharks eat the fish on his way back, leaving only the skeleton.

The story is about courage, endurance and dignity in defeat. A famous line is "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.

About "A Moveable Feast" (1964):

It is a memoir of Hemingway's years as a young, poor writer in Paris in the 1920s, published after his death.

It describes his friendships with writers and artists such as Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and James Joyce, who were part of the "Lost Generation".

About Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961):

• He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, USA.
• He worked as an ambulance driver in Italy in World War I, where he was wounded, and as a journalist and war correspondent.
• He was famous for his simple, direct writing style, with short sentences and few adjectives (the "iceberg theory").
• His other major novels include "The Sun Also Rises" (1926), "A Farewell to Arms" (1929) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940, set in the Spanish Civil War).
• He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

Other American writers:

• John Steinbeck: "The Grapes of Wrath"; Nobel Prize (1962).
• Mark Twain: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
• Herman Melville: "Moby-Dick" (1851), another famous story about a hunt at sea.

Why not the other options?

• ✗John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath".
• ✗Mark Twain wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
• ✗Herman Melville wrote "Moby-Dick".