Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. His most popular work, The Old Man and the Sea, earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and in 1954 Hemingway won the Nobel ...

If Ernest Hemingway were alive today, he would have just turned 117 years old. Just think how many more amazing books he could have written if he were still alive. Tragically, Hemingway committed ...

In an age of endless words, Hemingway wrote with a rifleman’s precision. Here’s how. He didn’t waste ink. He stripped sentences down to their bare bones and nerves. His sentences were clean, sharp, ...

When it comes to writing a book, there are many reasons to emulate the masters. Proust famously wrote in bed, while Joan Didion took an hour before dinner to read that day’s writing with a drink in ...

Fifty-four years ago, on a July day in 1961, the world awoke to the horrendous news that a giant of American literature had died at his own hand, from a shotgun blast to the head, just days short of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Hemingway's love of nature and writers' discipline were instilled in him from a young age. Often fishing and hunting with his father as a young boy, Ernest Hemingway fostered a love for the great ...