Where did Ernest Hemingway die?

Ernest Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961. He died at his home there, where he had been living with his fourth wife, Mary Welsh Hemingway, after leaving Cuba in 1960.

Hemingway had bought the Ketchum house in 1959 and spent his final years in the Sun Valley area. During this period, he struggled with serious physical and mental-health problems, including depression, paranoia, and the effects of earlier injuries. He received hospital treatment and electroconvulsive therapy in 1961 before returning home.

His death was caused by a self-inflicted shotgun wound. Hemingway was 61. He was buried four days later in Ketchum Cemetery, where members of his family were also eventually interred. His grave remains associated with the town’s literary history, and the house where he died is recognized as an important Hemingway site.

The answer is sometimes confused with Havana or Paris because both places were crucial to his life and work. Hemingway lived for many years at Finca Vigía near Havana and established his literary reputation while living in Paris in the 1920s. Oak Park, Illinois, was his birthplace, not his place of death.