Dree Hemingway is the daughter of Mariel Hemingway and Stephen Crisman, and the great-granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway. Dree grew up in Idaho and attended Ernest Hemingway Elementary School. She later moved to California for middle school and lived in Westlake Village, California's prestigious neighborhood of North Ranch. During high school, she attended Oaks Christian High School for the first 2.5 years and then moved away to pursue her modeling career.