Hemingway at eighteen
Subtitle: the pivotal year that launched an American legend
By: Steve Paul
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781613739716
Subjects: American Authors; Childhood and youth; Biography
Other titles: Hemingway at 18
Description: "In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn’t make up his mind and eventually chose to begin a career in writing and journalism at the Kansas City Star, one of the great newspapers of its day. In six and a half months at the Star, Hemingway experienced a compressed, streetwise alternative to a college education that opened his eyes to urban violence, the power of literature, the hard work of writing, and a constantly swirling stage of human comedy and drama. The Kansas City experience led Hemingway into the Red Cross ambulance service in Italy, where, two weeks before his nineteenth birthday, he was dangerously wounded at the front"--Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index.