ReadOasis Step 2(Part 1)

Hemingway Collection, Kennedy Presidential Museum

“A writer is always alone, always an outsider," Ernest Hemingway said. Hemingway created many characters in his books. Some people said that Hemingway was his own best creation.

Ernest Hemingway was born in 1891. He grew up in Oak Park, Illinois, near the middle of Chicago. He was the second child in a family of six. His father was a doctor. His mother liked to paint and play the piano.

Each summer the family...