An American author and journalist whose economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published 7 novels, 6 short story collections, and two non-fiction works. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.