Ernest Miller Hemingway akaberekwa musi waChikunguru 21, 1899, muOak Park, Illinois, mudhorobha reChicago. Baba vake, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, aive chiremba, uye amai vake, Grace Hall Hemingway, vaive muimbi. Vese vaive vakadzidza uye vanoremekedzwa muOak Park, nharaunda inochengetedza iyo mugari wayo Frank Lloyd Wright akati, "Machechi mazhinji kune vanhu vazhinji vakanaka kuti vaende". Kwenguva pfupi mushure mekuroora kwavo, Clarence naGrace Hemingway vakagara nababa vaGrace, Ernest Hall, zita remwanakomana wavo wekutanga. Gare gare, Ernest Hemingway aizotaura kuti haana kufarira zita rake, iro "rakasanganiswa nehupenzi, kunyangwe benzi remutambo waOscar Wilde Kukosha Kwekuwana".
Muna 1899