Not many people can say they made millions of strangers feel less alone. Ernest could.
Their story
Ernest Hemingway's spare prose changed American writing. He wrote The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, and won the Nobel Prize in 1954.
In their own words
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

Well put.