Hartwell, James Vol

Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and former newspaper writer, was born 21 July 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of physician Clarence Edmunds Hemingway and music teacher Grace Hall Hemingway. His family numbered among the wealthy resorters who frequented the area around Lake Charlevoix on the west side of Michigan's Lower Peninsula during the summer months. From the age of nine, Hemingway developed a strong personal attachment to the locals, particularly in Horton Bay, a small village of little more than fifty year-round residents where he returned after World War I and where he was married to Hadley Richardson, his first wife, in 1921. Hemingway would later draw upon his rich trove of boyhood memories of the place in his writings, setting many of his early stories in Horton Bay and the vicinity. Hemingway committed suicide, 2 July 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.