Birth of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park. An American novelist and short-story writer, Hemingway served as an ambulance driver in the First World War and then lived in Paris among the expatriate writers of the Lost Generation. His spare, direct prose style, shaped by his work as a journalist, appeared in The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls, which draws on his experience of the Spanish Civil War. The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953, and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He lived in Key West and Cuba, loved hunting and fishing, and took his own life in Idaho in 1961.

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