Ernest+Hemmingway

=Ernest Hemmingway=

Ernest Hemmingway is one person who impacted Ronda. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 & was an American author & journalist. His stories helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature in 1954 & he traveled the world. Hemmingway was named after his grandfather & his parents were Clarence Edmonds Hemmingway & Grace Hall-Hemmingway. Grace was a musician & Clarence was a physician. Both of which were educated & well respected in the community. He went to Oak Park and River Forest High School from 1913 to 1917. In high school, he played a lot of sports (boxing, track and field, water polo, and football), and got his best grades in English. When he was a junior, he took a journalisim class and submitted articles to the school newspaper. As an author, Ernest traveled worldwide searching for inspirations for his books. One place he kept returning back to was Ronda, Spain. He spent many summers in La Ciudad & wrote many of his novels there. Orson Welles & him have both been said to be spotted watching a bullfight in Plaza de Toros as well. Ernest married 4 times & committed suicide in Idaho in 1961.