Novelist and short story writer, regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Known for his mastery of prose and his ability to bring a non-English sensibility i...
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Novelist and short story writer, regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Known for his mastery of prose and his ability to bring a non-English sensibility into English literature. Often wrote about nautical settings and depicted crises of human individuality in an indifferent and amoral world.