July 21st marks the 120th birth anniversary of the American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer Ernest Hemingway. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works in his lifetime. Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction. The popularity of Hemingway's work depends on its themes of love, war, wilderness, and loss, all of which are strongly evident in the body of work. Hemingway's legacy to American literature is his style: writers who came after him emulated it or avoided it.