Full Name: Ernest Miller Hemingway; Profession: American novelist, short‑story writer, journalist, and sportsman whose spare, hard‑boiled prose style helped redefine modern literature and narrative realism in the 20th century. Nationality: American; Born: July 21, 1899; Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, USA (then part of Cicero, an affluent suburb west of Chicago); Generation: Lost Generation modernist writer, part of the post-World War I expatriate circle in Paris whose work expressed the disillusionment and moral questioning of his era; Chinese Zodiac: Earth Pig (Year of the Pig, 1899, associated with diligence, compassion, generosity, and grounded practicality in Chinese astrology); Zodiac Sign: Cancer, reflecting the sensitive, emotionally complex, and protective water-sign qualities traditionally attributed to those born on July 21; Age in 2026: would be 127 years old if still living, spanning the period from his birth in 1899 to the year 2026; Marital Status: Married four times—first to Hadley Richardson, then to Pauline Pfeiffer, then to war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, and finally to journalist Mary Welsh, with whom he remained married until his death; Children: three sons, John Hadley “Jack” Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway, and Gregory Hemingway, who carried forward aspects of his literary and adventurous legacy; Description: Ernest Hemingway rose from a Midwestern upbringing to become one of the most iconic writers in world literature, serving as a Red Cross ambulance driver in World War I, working as a journalist, and immersing himself in bullfighting, big-game hunting, boxing, fishing, and multiple wars to gather the raw material that shaped his fiction, while his “iceberg theory” of omission and his terse, muscular sentences influenced generations of writers and reporters; drawing deeply on his lived experience, he created landmark works such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novella The Old Man and the Sea, each exploring themes of courage under pressure, stoic endurance, love and loss, and the struggle to derive meaning in an often brutal and indifferent world, and his 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature recognized not only his craftsmanship but also his profound impact on global storytelling, making him a towering cultural figure whose image—as the bearded adventurer, fisherman in Cuba, wounded veteran, and haunted artist—continues to shape popular myths about writers, masculinity, and the romanticized life of creative exile. Cause of Death: died by suicide at age 61 on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho, when he shot himself in the head with a shotgun at his home after a period of serious physical illness, depression, and other mental health struggles that had led to multiple hospitalizations and electroconvulsive treatments.