Ernest Hemingway was born in a suburb of Chicago in 1899. He was the eldest son of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a doctor, and Grace Hall Hemingway. He was educated in the local public schools and began to write in high school. The parts of his boyhood that mattered most to him were summers spent with his family on Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan.
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