Today in History: The Old Man and the Sea

On this day (May 4) in 1953, Ernest Hemmingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Old Man and the Sea. This book was widely assigned to high school students when I was that age (perhaps it still is). I remember it as primarily an adventure story with a tragic ending, but obviously others considered it to be much more than that or it wouldn’t have won the Pulitzer.