Ernest Hemingway was born on july 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He lived comfortably with an upper-middle-class family. At an early age, Hemingway's father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, got Ernest Hemingway interested in outdoor activities, often pushing himself to the limits as he often did later in life. But the parts of his boyhood that mattered the most were summers spent with his family on Walloon Lake in upper Michigan (Philip Y. 1). Hemingway's father also hoped to have him be a physician like he was. Hemingway's mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, was much interested in music and believed that when Ernest left home to pursue his career of writing that he had disgraced the family. Ernest Hemingway’s career took him all over the world including, chicago, illinois, italy, cuba, and key west, …show more content…
1), was eight years older than him, and they both went to france. When Hemingway arrived in france, he arrived just as the city of paris was reaching a postwar zenith of intellectual ferment and literary activity (Shuman R. 3), while Hemingway was in France, he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. During Hemingway’s time in France, Hemingway became involved in modernism, a literary and artistic movement that favored abandoning tradition in favor of new forms of expression (Richard M. 2). Also during his time in France, Hemingway met renowned authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce, who were all members of the parisian literary society, along with letting Hemingway become a