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Jul 21,

Birth of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Illinois, a place he will later describe as a town of "wide lawns and narrow minds." He is the second of six children of Clarence Hemingway, a doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway, a music teacher.

Boy in Girls' Clothes

From his infancy, Hemingway's mother begins a strange habit of dressing her son like a girl, complete with dresses and long hair, and his older sister as a boy, with overalls and cropped hair.

When Ernest is six, she finally ends the charade and allows him to cut his long hair. The damage has already been done. In adulthood, his friend John dos Passos will describe Hemingway as the only man he ever knew who truly hated his mother.

Sep

Hemingway in High School

Ernest Hemingway enters Oak Park and River Forest High School.

He proves to be an excellent student athlete who boxes, plays football and writes for the school newspaper a