The Lost Generation writers exposed the sleazy, frivolous lives of the young and independently rich in the postwar years. Many were drawn to writing because there was no other way to make a living. Some of the most famous writers of the generation are Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound. All three were influential in their own right but also had a major impact on later generations of writers. Hemingway's sparse, unadorned style is characterized by its conversational tone and lack of subjunctive mood. His simple, straightforward sentences reflect his interest in pure experience and his rejection of literary theory. Although he was born in 1899 and died in 1961, many of his works were published after his death. For example, The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, was written by Hemingway in 1953-54. Fitzgerald's short stories and novels deal with the fast life in America during the 1920s and 1930s. Like Hemingway, he was interested in simple things such as fishing, hunting, and drinking with friends.