
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father Clarence Edmonds
Hemingway was a physician, and his mother, Grace Hall-Hemingway, was a musician. Both were well-educated and
well-respected in the conservative community of Oak Park. Frank Lloyd Wright, a resident of Oak Park, said of the
village: "So many churches for so many good people to go to". When Clarence and Grace Hemingway married in 1896,
they moved in with Grace's father, Ernest Hall, after whom they named their first son.[note 1] Hemingway claimed to
dislike his name, which he "associated with the naive, even foolish hero of Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of
Being Earnest". The family's seven-bedroom home in a respectable neighborhood contained a music studio for Grace
and a medical office for Clarence.