Publication of For Whom the Bell Tolls

Date: October 21, 1940 • Location: Washington, United States

The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.