When Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature presenters called him amp34one of this epochs great molders of style praising his vivid dialogue and journalistic eye for amp34robust details to accumulate and take on momentous significance.amp8221But even the Swedish Academy could not separate Hemingway the writer from Hemingway the adventurer. They also cited his amp34manly love of danger and adventure with a natural admiration for every individual who fights the good fight in a world of reality overshadowed by violence and death.amp8221From the 1920s until his death in 1961 amp34Papaamp8221 Hemingway was a largerthanlife literary figure whose everyday exploits became legendary. He was a friend of celebrities a war correspondent journalist renowned biggame hunter recordsetting saltwater angler and harddrinking brawler whose reputation preceded him.Though Hemingway was and remains an American icon he was also first and foremost a human being as these striking blackandwhite photos remind.