Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, Ernest Hemingway was educated there in the public schools. He became a reporter on the Kansas City Star, and in World War I served as an ambulance driver in Italy and was badly wounded in action. After the war he settled in Paris as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, and it was there that he began his serious writing career. He served as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. In 1954 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in Idaho in 1961.
Note: Hemingway picture borrowed from The Sun Also Rises, (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1970)