Ernest Hemingway Considered one of the great writers of the 20th century, Hemingway was an adventurer, a man capable of discovering new places to the world through his stories. Strongly inspired by the so-called "lost generation" made up of expatriates who, like him, fought in World War |, Hemingway exported the image of that folkloric Spain in his book Fiesta, the splendor of the French capital of Paris was a fiesta or the African scenes of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. His passion for the sea would take him to Cuba, where he would write his best-known work, The Old Man and the Sea, published in 1952. A year later, the author would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his entire career. For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the most popular novels of the Nobel Prize for Literature Ernest Hemingway. Set in the Spanish Civil War, the play is a beautiful story of love and death that has become a classic of our timeWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, Faulkner was one of the first literary modernists in the United States, adopting narrative techniques from European authors such as Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. His work, characterized by a careful lexicon, long sentences and new experiments such as the interior monologue, is made up of works such as The noise and the fury, centered on the decadent Compson family, or the two intertwined stories of The Wild Palms, in addition to a infinity of short stories included in its collection Cuentos reunidosConsidered by William Faulkner as "the father of American literature’, Twain was one of the great authors of his time, especially after the publication of the satirical story The famous jumping frog of Calaveras County in 1865, which attracted the attention of the whole country. Characterized by criticism of a colder and more individualistic adult world, ‘Twain's work left behind such iconic novels as The Prince and the Pauper or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was followed by its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Emily Dickinson » 150 years ago, the literary scene did not understand women writers, a situation that would weigh down part of the existence of one of the great poets of history: Emily Dickinson. Eccentric and reserved, the author spent part of the last years of her life locked in a room with her, accumulating up to 1800 poems of which only a dozen was published during her lifetime. Fortunately, time has made it possible to rescue some of Dickinson's greatest works, all of them influenced by love, humor or the Bible and characterized by short lines or imperfect rhymes that led some of the editors to modify their published poems in life.Harper Lee Although it does not have an extensive bibliography, Lee is credited with creating what is one of the great works of American literature: To Kill a Mockingbird. As a result of a childhood marked by the trials in which his father participated and which he was accompanied by his friend Truman Capote, Lee transferred part of his vision on issues such as racism or machismo to a work that extols the figure of his protagonist, lawyer Atticus Finch, making him the much-needed national racial hero in a decade like the 1960s. The first draft of the play, Go and Post a Sentinel, was published in 2015, a year before Lee's death.Truman Capote pe Eccentric and particular, Capote grew up on different farms in the southern United States where he began to write as a way to alleviate isolation. Already in his teens, the success of his first stories earned him the nickname “Poe's disciple", a stage that would link with the success of Breakfast with Diamonds, published in 1958 and adapted to the cinema in 1961. However, his great success would be In Cold Blood, published in 1966 an extensive investigation that established the pillars of the so-called «new journalismSteinbeck's life could have inspired a book in itself: from his work on Californian farms where he came into contact with the reality of immigrants, to his experiences in New York participating in the construction of Madison Square Garden, John Steinbeck finally stopped. in his native California, where after living on social benefits with his wife he began to write some of his greatest works. Among the most important are East of Eden, The Pearl or, especially, The Grapes of Wrath, an x-ray of a Great Depression that in the 30s prompted many families from the interior of the United States to emigrate to California, considered as the land of opportunities. The writer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962Edgar Allan Poe Before all the American writers of the 20th century, Poe sowed the seed of the self-sufficient writer, or one who claims to live on his writing above all else. Marked by a harsh childhood, his addictions to alcohol and drugs or various suicide attempts, Poe spat out part of his universe in a selection of stories such as The Golden Beetle or The Black Cat that would lay the foundations of the fantastic literature perpetuated by others. authors years later.Stephen King If there is a contemporary author capable of twisting the most basic fears of the human being, it is Stephen King, "master of terror" and author of up to fifty works that have enjoyed great public success. Although his unorthodox methods when writing his novels have been criticized by experts, King has managed to make works such as Misery, It, Animal Cemetery, Carrie or The Shining true classics of modem horror literature, most adapted to the big screen with great box office successHenry James He was an American author, who became a British subject in the last year of his life. He is considered a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism and is considered by many to be one of the best novelists in the English language. He is best known for a series of novels dealing with the marital and social interaction between American émigrés, English and continental Europeans. Examples of such novels include The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove. His later works were increasingly experimental His novel The Turn of the Screw has earned a reputation as the most widely analyzed and ambiguous ghost story in the English language and remains his most widely adapted work in other media. He also wrote a number of other highly regarded ghost stories and is considered one of the field's greatest teachers.