Ernest Hemingway

Author
1899 - 1961

Inducted in 1987

This preeminent literary figure of the 20th century moved to Key West in 1928, living there periodically until 1940. Hemmingway wrote all or part of his most famous works including A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro in Key West. In 1954, he became only the fifth American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Old Man and the Sea.