On July 2, 1961, distraught over finances, the loss of several friends, and the feared loss of his home in Cuba, American author Ernest Hemingway took his own life with a shotgun blast to the head. He was buried in the Ketchum Cemetery in Ketchum, Idaho. Several years later, in 1996, his granddaughter, actress Margaux Hemingway, would also take her life. She is buried in the same cemetery. Hemingway is best known for his novels The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and The Old Man and the Sea (1953) which won him the Nobel Prize.