Ernest Hemingway

On July 21, 1899, Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Cicero, Illinois. His parents raised him both in their cabin in Michigan and in the traditional Chicago suburbs. Hemingway wrote mostly about athletics for his high school newspaper, Trapeze and Tabula, during his time there. The aspiring journalist started working for the Kansas City Star right after graduation. Hemingway enlisted in the Italian Army in 1918 and was sent to fight in World War I as an ambulance driver. Agnes von Kurowsky, a nurse he met there, accepted his marriage proposal right away but eventually abandoned him for another man. Hemingway initially met Hadley Richardson in Chicago; she would go on to be his first wife. He received the Literature Nobel Prize in 1954. Hemingway had treatment for a number of ailments, including high blood pressure and liver illness, as well as depression. His narrative of his time spent in Paris, A Moveable Feast, was written after he moved permanently to Idaho. He fought there against his declining physical and mental health. Hemingway committed suicide at his Ketchum home early on July 2, 1961.