Ernest Hemingway His Life Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Chicago. He was the second of six children born at his grandfather’s house on North Oak Park Avenue. When Hemingway was just seven weeks old, the family moved to Bear Lake which his father had purchased the summer before. Hemingway was not christened until October first at the First Congregational Church. Hemingway spent most of his younger years on the shore at …showed first 75 words of 1743 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1743 total…to put down what really happened in action: what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced… the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion…” His idea was to describe a series of actions without comment or emotional use of speech. The reader would then visualize the sequence and experience the emotion, which the author had deliberately left out. This is what makes Hemingway a great writer.