Ernest Hemingway is widely considered one of the great American novelists. He won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 and 1954, respectively.

And Hemingway’s unique writing style was his own.

“His short, declarative sentences, intentional repetition, and general absence of adjectives were a departure from the style of every previous novelist,” notes teacher Jessica Leader via PBS, which premiered Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s six-hour documentary Hemingway in 2021. “Whereas authors before him conveyed meaning and mood through ornate descriptions of setting and detailed character sketches, Hemingway kept his writing terse and sparse.”

Hemingway honed his writing style during his short journalism career at The Kansas City Star, where he worked from October........

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