Is Ernesto Hemmingway overrated?

I heard his brother was also a famous author.

I'd say he was on par with Sinclairy Lewis and Williama Faulkner.

I once had aspirations of being a writer and Hemingway was one of the authors that I wanted to emulate, he has an almost instinctive ability for writing realistic dialogue that makes you feel as if you are hovering there among the characters and taking part.

He is also gifted with an instinctive ability to create scenery of time and place that can evoke these images sharply in your mind, it's hard to explain but he has mastered the technique of giving the reader just enough detail that he does not interfere with your participation and the scenery flows along allowing the characters to inhabit it with movement, he never drags the reader down with 'over-description' he can be fiercely efficient and lean at times or weave a poetic line through the setting.

Reread 'The Sun Also Rises' last month and it was just as engrossing as when I had first picked it up a number of years ago.

I admire great dialogue between lively characters and it is also one of the hardest elements for a writer to sustain over the length of a story and he is a genius at it.

Hemingway will always be there- he is that important and alot of writers could learn some serious lessons just by studying the masterly structure of his writing style and adapting it to their own.

Look back through literature and you might find that Ernest Hemingway changed the way we write and what we expect in a novel and don't try to define Hemingway to only a 'Masculine' approach his writing did evolve in many ways over the years, The Old Man and the Sea -written in 1951 is quite a bit different then 'The Sun also Rises' written 1926.