Happy Birthday, Papa

Known for his succinct prose and his adventurous life, Ernest Hemingway,

who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, was born on this day in 1899.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho—Ernest Hemingway with his son Gregory, 1941

VALENCIA, Spain—Hemingway preparing to leave to cover the war front near Teruel, December 1937

TERUEL, Spain—Hemingway with soldiers at the front lines, December 1937

MORA DEL EBRO, Spain—Hemingway at the front lines, December 1937

SPAIN—Hemingway during the Spanish Civil War, 1938

SUN VALLEY, Idaho—Hemingway at home, 1940

SUN VALLEY, Idaho—Hemingway hunting, 1940

SUN VALLEY, Idaho, 1940

SUN VALLEY, Idaho—Robert Capa and Hemingway laugh during a hunting trip at Hemingway's lodge, 1940

SUN VALLEY, Idaho - During a shooting party, 1941

SUN VALLEY, Idaho—With his sons and his wife, journalist Martha Gelhorn, 1941.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho—Hemingway hunting, 1941

LONDON—Hemingway recovering after a car accident, 1944.

NAIROBI, Kenya, 1954

HAVANA—Fidel Castro and Hemingway during a fishing competition, 1960