The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace and Museum (200 N. Oak Park Avenue) are located within a short walk of each other in Oak Park, Chicago. The Museum features kiosks made from old doors, holding old photos and artifacts including Hemingway’s childhood diary and the letter Agnes von Kurowsky wrote terminating their engagement. Special exhibits over the years have showcased Hemingway’s love of nature and the arts, as well as his experiences in both World Wars and film. There is also a giftshop. The Victorian home is beautifully restored, thanks to photographs taken by Dr. Clarence Edmond Hemingway, Ernest’s father, and full of information about literary origins, the family, and the first six years of Ernest’s life. Both spaces are owned and administered by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.

Ernest Hemingway was an American author and journalist who published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works while he was alive, as well as ten works posthumously. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and had four wives, Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh.