Born in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park Illinois in 1899, Ernest Hemingway left home at 17 to become a reporter for the Kansas City Star, then served as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he suffered shrapnel wounds. He moved to Paris in 1921 and became part of an expatriate A...

Born in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park Illinois in 1899, Ernest Hemingway left home at 17 to become a reporter for the Kansas City Star, then served as a Red Cross ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he suffered shrapnel wounds. He moved to Paris in 1921 and became part of an expatriate American scene that included Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. His works include In Our Time (1925), The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. Hemingway died in Ketchum, Idaho in 1961.

Robert W. Trogdon , editor, is professor of English at Kent State University. A scholar of twentieth-century American literature and textual editing, he has published extensively on the writings of Ernest Hemingway and served as an editor for The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway.