Key West has Hemingway’s former home and the bar he often goes to. Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway, July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961), American journalist and writer, considered one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century, wrote the world-famous Nobel Prize in Literature "Old Man and the Sea" (The Old Man and the Sea). Hemingway and his second wife Pauline began wintering in Key West in 1928, and their uncle bought them the house in 1931. From 1931 to 1939, he lived with his family until his death. Hemingway settled in Cuba between 1939 and 1960. Hemingway had always thought that he lived in Cuba and had his former residence in the United States.