Why is he the best American author?

Why is he the best American author?

>best
let's not think like that.

Please. He hasnt even produced any worthwhile memes.

Are you 12?

Because he blew his brains out with a fucking shotgun, way cooler than sticking your head in the oven or jumping out a building

Melville

>"muh need complex sentences to convey big ideas"

faulkner pls go

his slutty grand daughter killing herself is juicy

certainly one of the most influential, changed modern and post-modern writing for ever

Because he was good-looking when he was young.

This is they key to success in life.

T. unironic DFW fan

I'm sorry, what?

Not even homo but that is one handsome man

Is Typee even good? Or is he a one hit wonder?

In my country Walt Whitman is considered the best American author.

To think I squandered my good looks by being sucked into the circus of modernity

This is quick and excellent. Also I thought Billy Budd was his most successful work when he was alive.

He wrote stories that resonated very strongly with a particularly unique and captivating time period, and the generation of people that lived in it.

In the same sense that you can associate Tolstoy with 1800's aristocratic Russia and Faulkner with the turn of the century American south, you can associate Hemingway with postwar era Europe.

>Also I thought Billy Budd was his most successful work when he was alive.
>published posthumously

>You will never have drinks in post-war Paris with Joyce and Hemingway
Might kill myself

He writes in a way Americans can understand.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnnmmmnnnnmmnnnnnnmmmningway isn't even in the top 50 if you're not a total pleb.

I guess you're fishing for a reply. Here you go.