Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1962) is considered to be one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. Hemingway was born July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father, Clarence, was a physician, and his mother, Grace, had aspired to be an opera singer before her marriage but now gave voice and music lessons. As a child and adolescent, Hemingway lived a typical middle-class, and relatively privileged life. The family took summer vacations each year on Lake Walloon in Michigan ("Ernest Hemingway", Wikipedia, June 15, 2006) and it is here that Hemingway learned from his father, an outdoorsman, to hunt, fish, and enjoy nature (Baker; Brien; "Ernest Hemingway"). Hemingway's love of nature and the outdoors, established early on in his life, is reflected in much of his fiction, including his first published short story collection In Our Time (1925), which contains Hemingway's well-known story of the Michigan outdoors, "Big Two-Hearted River" ("Ernest Hemingway").
             Among Ernest Hemingway's most famous and widely-read literary works are his first novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) (published in Britain the same year as Fiesta) (Baker), set in post-World War I Paris and Spain; his novel of the World War I Italian Front A Farewell to Arms (1937); the novella The Old Man and the Sea (1952) about an old Cuban fisherman, which was singled out for special mention when Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962; and the posthumously-published A Moveable Feast (1964),l a slim volume of recollections of Hemingway's experiences living in Paris as a young man.
             Ernest Hemingway himself lived a varied and often tumultuous life. He married four times; traveled often and widely; lived and wrote in several; different countries, including France and Cuba; engaged in a number of vigorous outdoor sports including big game hunt...