On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and short-story writer, whose style is characterized by crispness, realistic dialogue, and emotional understatement, was born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1961).
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of ...
Biography. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen.