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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on 21 July, 1899, the first son of Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway and the second of their six children. Clarence Hemingway was a medical doctor with a small practice in Oak Park, Illinois; his wife was a music teacher with an active interest in church affairs and Christian Science. As a boy, Hemingway seemed to enjoy the best of both worlds. He grew up close to metropolitan center in a suburban …

… writing. A shadow of his physical and intellectual self, Hemingway committed suicide on July 2, 1961 by placing the barrel of a twelve-gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. During the next decade or so, several works in progress, including A Moveable Feast and The Garden of Eden, were published posthumously for the benefit of a reading public that longed for more from Papa Hemingway. Indeed, his popularity continued to grow after his death.