The Greatest 20th Century Fiction Writer

Ernest Hemingway was the most important and influential 20th-century American fiction writer. He is our Kafka, our Proust, our Borges, our Joyce, our Premchand, our Hamsun, our Lu Xun, our Soseki, our Achebe. If we look at the impact that various 20th-century American fiction writers had on our literature and our national consciousness, there’s Hemingway far up at the top, and maybe Faulkner or Morrison in a distant second place.