A Clean, Well-Lighted Place | About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. He was the second child and eldest son of Clarence Hemingway, a doctor, and his wife, Grace Hall Hemingway. Hemingway grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park and spent summers with his family at their cottage on Walloon Lake in upper Michigan, an area he later used as the setting for many of his short stories. After graduating from high school in 1917, Hemingway took a junior reporting position at the Kansas City Star, one of the leading American newspapers of the day.
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