Biographies: July 21
Ernest Hemingway
Featured Biography Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

American writer Ernest Hemingway—famous for his adventurous life and lucid, masculine prose, for which he earned the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature—was born this day in 1899 in what is now Oak Park, Illinois.