In what year was Ernest Hemingway born?

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. He was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago. His full name was Ernest Miller Hemingway, and he was the second of six children born to physician Clarence Hemingway and musician Grace Hall Hemingway.

Hemingway spent his early childhood in Oak Park, where his family maintained a summer cottage near Walloon Lake, Michigan. Outdoor experiences there—fishing, hunting, and camping—later influenced the subjects and settings of his fiction. He became one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, known for spare prose, understated emotion, and themes of war, courage, loss, and endurance.

A common mix-up is confusing his birth year with the dates of his major works. The Sun Also Rises appeared in 1926, A Farewell to Arms in 1929, and The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. Hemingway died in 1961, shortly before his 62nd birthday.