Ernest Hemingway Bio

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July, 1899, the first son of Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway and the second of their six children. Clarence Hemingway was a medical doctor with a small practice in Oak Park, Illinois; his wife was a music teacher with an active interest in church affairs and Christian Science. As a boy, Hemingway seemed to enjoy the best of both worlds. He grew up close to metropolitan center in a suburban …

… writing. A shadow of his physical and intellectual self, Hemingway committed suicide on July 2, 1961 by placing the barrel of a twelve-gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. During the next decade or so, several works in progress, including A Moveable Feast and The Garden of Eden, were published posthumously for the benefit of a reading public that longed for more from Papa Hemingway. Indeed, his popularity continued to grow after his death.