Born on July 21
Ernest Hemingway's Birthday
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Where it comes from
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and this Story marks his birthday. He started as a reporter on a Kansas City newspaper at seventeen, drove ambulances in Italy in the First World War, and in the 1920s joined the American writers in Paris, the world of The Sun Also Rises (1926).
How it's celebrated
His birthplace in Oak Park, now a museum run by the Hemingway Foundation, welcomes visitors to the house where he was born. In Key West, Florida, where he lived in the 1930s, a week-long festival around his birthday ends in a famous look-alike contest of bearded 'Papas'.
Did you know
On the day he was born, his father announced the news from the porch of the family home by playing a fanfare on his cornet.
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