Ernest Miller Hemingway born in Oak Park on July 21, 1899 was an American writer and journalist.  He was the author of novels and short stories.

Nicknamed Pope, he was part of the American expatriate community in Paris during the 1920s, known as "the lost Generation" and named by him in his memoir Mobile Party, inspired by a phrase by Gertrude Stein.  He led a turbulent social life, married four times and was given various sentimental relationships.  He achieved an uncommon popularity and fame already in life, which raised him to the myth of the new generations.  Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Hemingway's literary style is characterized by the paratactic essentiality and dryness of language, it had a significant influence on the development of the novel in the twentieth century.  Its protagonists are typically men with a stoic nature, who are called to show "grace" in uncomfortable situations.  Many of his works are considered milestones in American literature