Hemingway at Eighteen

In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an 18-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry in 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 one of the great newspapers of its day, the ...