Living History: Ernest Hemingway
“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.” --Ernest Hemingway Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. He gained early experience as a reporter for the Kansas City Star newspaper. Yearning to serve in World War I, Hemingway became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy in 1918, where he…