In Our Time

<p><span>Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist short-story writer journalist and sportsman. His economical and understated style-which he termed the iceberg theory-had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels six short-story collections and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels four short-story collections and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature.</span></p><p></p><p><span>In Our Time is Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories published in 1925. Its title is derived from the English Book of Common Prayer Give peace in our time O Lord. To this edition were added four more short stories including Indian Camp My Old Man Up in Michigan and Out of Season.</span></p><p><span>Hemingway's writing style attracted attention with literary critic Edmund Wilson saying it was of the first distinction; the 1925 edition of In Our Time is considered one of Hemingway's early masterpieces.</span></p><p></p>