Ernest Hemingway and the Indian Camp By Kristian Løth Munkholm His name was Ernest Miller Hemingway, and he was born on July 21. in
1899. Ernest grew up in a Chicago suburb, more specifically in Oak Park,
Illinois. His family was well respected, somewhat because of his parents being well educated. The mother of Ernest was named Grace HallHemingway, and she was an experienced musician. Grace frequently performed at local concerts in Oak
Park, with extraordinary passion and energy. Hemingway's father, named
Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a well educated physician who worked in their home town of Oak Park. As a young boy, Ernest’s parents bought a summer home at Walloon Lake in Michigan. The lakeside summer house, named Windmere, was a place of joy. When Ernest was four years old, his father teached him to hunt, fish and camp in the woods. A day in the early 1918, Ernest responded to a World War One military draft from the red cross of Kansas City. He was chosen to drive an ambulance in the northern Italy, and by that he met what was going to be one of his best friends ever, John
Dos Passos. The first time Ernest fell in love, was also in Italy, and his heart belonged to, Agnes von kurowsky. As it has shown in these later years, Ernest was born for writing. After returning to the US, Ernest worked as a freelance writer. He then later worked as an associate editor in the magazine Cooperative
Commonwealth.
On the second of July 1961, after an illfeeling year for Mr.
Hemingway, he chose to commit suicide. He walked to his basement and unlocked his favourite gun from his safe. Even though the press framed the suicide as “accidental”, he did