
Hemingway left behind his wife and three sons. After a final move to Idaho, Hemingway took his own life in 1961, following in the footsteps of his father who had committed suicide in 1928.


Hemingway married his fourth and final wife, Mary Hemingway, in 1946, and the couple spent the next fourteen years living in Cuba. After its publication, he met his third wife, Martha Gellhorn. Hemingway finally moved to Spain to serve as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War, a job which inspired his famous 1939 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. The couple moved to Florida, where Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms (1929), which became a bestseller. Scott Fitzgerald and other ex-patriot American writers of the "lost generation." After the 1926 publication of his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, he divorced Hadley and married Arkansas native Pauline Pfeiffer. In 1921 they moved to Paris, where he began a long friendship with F. Formative Years Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois.

Afterward, he lived in Ontario and Chicago, where he met his first wife, Hadley Richardson. After high school, he got a job writing for The Kansas City Star, but left after only six months to join the Red Cross Ambulance Corps during World War I, where he was injured and awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor. Ernest Hemingway grew up outside a suburb of Chicago, spending summers with his family in rural Michigan.
