Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21st 1899, in the home of Clarence and Grace Hemingway (JFK 1). Their home was in a Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. His father, a family doctor and his mother an opera singer, decided not to take it as a career, but instead she decided to get marry and have six children. Ernest’s parents were very religious, he grew up in a mainly around a protestant family (CNN1). As …showed first 75 words of 921 total…

…showed last 75 words of 921 total…knees and cry and beg his wife not to send him back for more shock treatments,” Nagel said. Hemingway could not endure this pain any longer. On the morning of Jul 2, 1961, Hemingway rose from his bed like he did every morning, went into the based and selected one of his many assorted shotguns. He selected his double barrel shotgun and proceeded back upstairs into his room and pushed both triggers away from his head (JFK 12).