Samuel left school after the fifth grade to start a printer apprenticeship. He later received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford in 1907.
His talent was nurtured and honed from a teen to an adult, as he became one of the famous American authors of his generation.
Hemingway received the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He had been nominated three times previously.
In 1967, Toni Morrison became the first black woman editor for Random House’s fiction department.
The Catcher in the Rye has built a reputation as one of the greatest novels of the last century.