Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. Dr. Hemingway, his father, invented surgical forceps for which he would not accept money. Ernest's father, a man of high ideals, was very strict and censored the books he allowed his children to read. He forbad Ernest's sister from studying ballet for it was coeducational, and dancing together led to "hell and damnation". Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest's mother, considered herself pure and proper. Mrs. …showed first 75 words of 898 total…

…showed last 75 words of 898 total…her funeral when she died in 1951. He admitted that he hated his mother's guts. Ernest wrote The Old Man and the Sea in only two months. He was on top of the world, the book was printed by Life Magazine and thousands of copies were sold in the United States. This novel and A Farewell to Arms were both made into movies. On a Sunday morning, July 2, 1961, Ernest Miller Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun.