Ernest Hemingway 
Torrents of Spring& The Old Man and the Sea 

The Torrents of Spring is Hemingway»s only parody, with both romantic and naturalistic styles. It was praised by Fitzgerald as "the most harmonious work of books written by Americans." The Old Man and the Sea is the last novel published by Hemingway during his lifetime. It tells the story of the old fisherman and the big fish. It has a profound theme and won the Pulitzer Prize for Hemingway in 1953. And because of the book»s achievements, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. The image of the old fisherman "tough guy" portrayed in the novel has infected generation after generation. "A person can be destroyed, but cannot be defeated". It is also eulogized by readers all over the world, and it will last forever.