On this date in history, July 8, 1918, the iconic novelist Ernest Hemingway, then an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, was struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian ...

According to the group, the location is where Heminway recovered from World War I and was one of his favorite places. "This is where the black the pigeon and the sturgeon river come within a mile, ...

Ernest Hemingway in uniform in 1918 and later as an author in 1952. Courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection / Getty Images When it comes to visionaries, give war a chance. Several major artists ...

James McGrath Morris is the author of “The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War.” He may be one of the most important figures in the history of 20th- century ...

WHEN June, 1917, arrived, the boys in our senior class had the war, even more than college, on their minds. President Wilson had given up neutrality in April, 1917. Ernest put off deciding where to go ...

Almost all of us experienced Ernest Hemingway’s stories in high school English class. He’s still considered one of the greatest authors of the 20th century, and Hemingway made sure he had plenty of ...