"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

Hemingway had already written The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), by the time he penned The Old Man and the Sea (1952). But it was Old Man that made him a celebrity, and he subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954.

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