GREAT AMERICAN
WRITERS
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
• He was born in 1899.
• He was a writer and a journalist. • His books often describle the
adventures he had while he was travelling in the World.
• He won the Nobel Prize in 1954. • His short novel “The old man and the
sea” is the story of an old fisherman in Cuba. He wants to catch a marlin, an enormous fish. It’s about their epic struggle.
• He died in 1961.
TONI MORRISON
• She was born in 1931.
• She began her career when she was 40 years old.
• Before she was an English teacher at university.
• She has written 10 novels.
• Her most famous book “Beloved” is a historical novel and a ghost story. It has been a great success.
• She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993.
• She’s still live.
JEROME DAVID SALINGER
• He was born in 1919.
• He wrote “The catcher in the Rye”. • It tells the story of a boy who is at a
boarding school in Pennsylvania.
• He was a very private man and never gave interviews.
• He died in 2010.
HARPER LEE
• She was born in 1926.
• She wrote “To kill the Mockingbird”, it is an important book because it talks about prejeudice between black and white people in the USA.
• She died in 2016.
