My Brother, Ernest Hemingway

January, 1962

part IILast month, in Part I of his biography, "My Brother, Ernest Hemingway," Leicester Hemingway examined in depth the first 25 years of the celebrated author's life. Writing with an intimacy and insight possible only to a member of the Hemingway household, he described Ernest's strait-laced Middle Western origin, his formative childhood years, the start of his journalistic career, and his first taste of battle on the Italian front in World War I, where he was wounded by enemy fire a...

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