... knew from firsthand experience. In the years following World War II, many critics said Hemingway's best writing was past. He surprised many of the critics when the novel, The Old Man and the Sea, was published.. This work led to his Pulitzer Prize in 1952. Two years later he received the Nobel Prize for his "powerful, style-making mastery of the art or modern narration- (Griffin 1) for The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway's years following these awards saw ... few works as successful as his novel or earlier writings. Hemingway was devastated that he could no ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School