Identify the author: This American fiction writer had a larg…
Identify the author: This American fiction writer had a larger-than-life persona in his personal life. While he often wrote novels and stories of settings like hunting in Africa, war, bullfights, he could also write stories of quiet moments like trout fishing. His journalism background influenced his writing, which was simple on the surface but which carried emotion beneath. His world was the generation that came of age during World War I and that searched for significance in the first half of the twentieth century.