Born in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park Illinois in 1899, Ernest
Hemingway left home at seventeen to become a reporter for the
Kansas City Star, then served as a Red Cross volunteer on the
Italian front, where he suffered shrapnel wounds. He moved to Paris
in 1921 and became part of an international expatriate scene that
included Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Among his numerous
books are In Our Time (1925), The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell
to Arms (1929), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Hemingway took
his life in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961.
Robert W. Trogdon is professor of English at Kent State
University and a leading scholar of 20th century American
literature and textual editing. He has published extensively on the
works of Ernest Hemingway. He serves as an editor of The Cambridge
Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway.
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