The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was one of the twentieth century's most important novelists, as well as a brilliant short story writer and foreign correspondent. His body of work includes the novelsA Farewell to Arms,For Whom the Bell Tolls, andThe Sun Also Rises. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novellaThe Old Man and the Sea, and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.Charlton Heston, best known for such epic films asThe Ten CommandmentsandBen-Hur, has appeared in more than forty motion pictures, among themThe Agony and the Ecstasy, Kenneth Branagh'sHamlet, andTrue Lies. He has received a number of awards both in the United States and abroad, including a Best Actor Academy Award&#174;forBen-Hur. Away from the camera, he has been active in the Screen Actors Guild, the American Film Institute, and the Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles.