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Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈ h ɛ m ɪ ŋ w eɪ / HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.
The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace is a historic Queen Anne home and museum in Oak Park, Illinois, United States, where American author Ernest Hemingway was born. Hemingway lived in the home with his family for the first six years of his life.
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
In about 1898, Dr. Clarence Hemingway and his wife Grace Hall Hemingway purchased four lots at this site on the shore of Walloon Lake. In 1899, they identified a location to construct a cottage, which Grace designed. [4] In 1900, the couple spent $400 [5] to have this cottage constructed on the site, which they dubbed "Windemere." The family ...
The collection was established in 1968 following an exchange of letters between Hemingway's widow Mary and Jacqueline Kennedy that confirmed that Hemingway's papers would be archived there. [53] In 1961, despite a U.S. travel ban to Cuba, President Kennedy had arranged to allow Mary Hemingway to go there to claim her recently deceased husband's ...
Ernest Hemingway Cottage, Walloon Lake, Michigan, NRHP-listed, Hemingway family's summer retreat; Pfeiffer House and Carriage House, Piggott, Arkansas, Ernest Hemingway's residence in the late 1920's; Ernest Hemingway House, Key West, Florida, NRHP-listed, also known as Hemingway House & Museum, Ernest Hemingway's home in the 1930's
Robert Hale Merriman, leader of the American Volunteers in the International Brigades, and his wife Marion, were well known to Hemingway and served possibly as a model for Hemingway's own hero. [18] [19] André Marty, a leading French Communist and political officer in the International Brigades, makes a brief but significant appearance in ...
Record group: Collection JFK-EHEMC: Ernest Hemingway Collection, 01/01/1880 - 12/31/1999 (National Archives Identifier: 1156)Series: Photographs: Early Years, 1899-1921, compiled 07/21/1899 - 12/31/1921 (National Archives Identifier: 192664)