Ernest Hemingway Is Born

On July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Nineteen years later he was bleeding in an Italian trench, a Red Cross volunteer with legs full of shrapnel and a lifetime of themes already forming. From a Kansas City newsroom style sheet to the cafes of Paris, this is the story of the man who stripped English prose to the bone and taught a century of writers to trust what goes unsaid.Send me a text!Support the show