The Old Man and the Sea centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with

The Old Man and the Sea centers upon Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. It is a significant factor in the selection of ______for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 195

A．William Faulkner

B．Ernest Hemingway

C．Sinclair Lewis

D．John Steinbeck

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