[ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] People of Note - Obituaries GenealogyBuff.com - Ernest Hemingway, Writer Posted By: GenealogyBuff.com Date: Sunday, 4 September 2016, at 7:26 p.m. System Mechanic - Clean, repair, protect, and speed up your PC! Ernest Hemingway, Writer July 21, 1899 - July 02, 1961 Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21st, 1899 in Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He was the second of six children. His father, Dr Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was a fervent member of the First Congregational church, his mother, Grace Hall, sang in the church choir. After high school, he became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. That job did not last long. In 1918, he traveled to Italy and served as an ambulance driver for the Italian army. After the war, Hemingway became one of a number of American expatriate writers to congregate in Paris. It was during that period that his first books were published. Hemingway continued to travel between the United States and Europe, and resided for a short time in Cuba. In 1953, he received a Pulitzer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea," and in 1954 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Hemingway died on July 2, 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, of self inflicted gun shot wounds. He was 61. USA Yearbooks by State and County [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] People of Note - Obituaries is maintained by GenealogyBuff with WebBBS 5.12.

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