Ernest Miller Hemingway 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 fo
Hemingway in late 1939
Ernest Hemingway Boyhood Home, Oak Park, Illinois
Hemingway was the second child and first son born to Clarence and Grace.
Hemingway as 1st Lt. (A.R.C.), in late 1918; note the medal ribbons on his chest and the two rank stripes above the cuffs
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first wife of American author Ernest Hemingway. The two married in 1921 after a courtship of less than a year, and moved to Paris within months of being married. In
Ernest Hemingway
…Star. In Chicago, he worked as an associate editor of the monthly journal Cooperative Commonwealth, where he met novelist Sherwood Anderson. He met Hadley Richardson through his roommate's sister. Later, he claimed, "I knew she was the girl I was going to marry." Red-haired, with a "nurturing instinct", Hadley was…
Richardson with husband Ernest Hemingway and their son Jack in Schruns, Austria, in 1926
Richardson and Ernest Hemingway in Switzerland, 1922
Ernest Hemingway (left), with Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden (in hat), Hadley Richardson Hemingway, Donald Ogden Stewart (obscured), and Pat Guthrie (far right) in Pamplona, Spain, July 1925.