On July 21, 1899, on one of the quiet shady streets of the town of Oak Park, located near Chicago, the cry of a newborn boy was heard in the family of the aspiring doctor Clarence Hemingway, named Ernest Miller in honor of his grandfather. July 4, 1961 in Sun Valley, located between Haley and Catchum on the west bank of the Wood River, in a house whose facade was open to the rising sun, a silver-encrusted 12-gauge Richardson double-barreled shotgun fired. The famous writer Ernest Hemingway has died.