July 21, 1899:  Author Ernest Hemingway Born On this day in 1899, Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois.  Hemingway’s writing was characterized by straightforward prose and use of understatement, and he developed a reputation for his hard drinking and macho-man persona.  His last significant published work was 1952’s The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and helped earn Hemingway the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Where was Hemingway living when he wrote his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises?  Follow his journey throughout the world by exploring Michael Palin’s “Hemingway Adventure”, an interactive one-stop shop of Hemingway’s travels. Photo: Young Hemingway, 1908.  Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0003451. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum.
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July 21, 1899:  Author Ernest Hemingway Born

On this day in 1899, Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway was born in Illinois.  Hemingway’s writing was characterized by straightforward prose and use of understatement, and he developed a reputation for his hard drinking and macho-man persona.  His last significant published work was 1952’s The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and helped earn Hemingway the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

Where was Hemingway living when he wrote his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises?  Follow his journey throughout the world by exploring Michael Palin’s “Hemingway Adventure”, an interactive one-stop shop of Hemingway’s travels.


Photo: Young Hemingway, 1908.  Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0003451. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum.

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