been disputed, but one source states that Hemingway, withshrapnel embedded in his leg, carried two wounded soldiers to safety as machine gun fireripped through his already bloodied limb. It was at the hospital in Milan, while havinghis leg tended to, where Hemingway first fell in love. She was a Red Cross nurse morethan nine years his senior, but he loved her with all the passion that would become histrademark. But he soon had to return to the states, and the affair was over (Nelson, 31).His war experiences would prove to be very useful in the years to come. When hereturned to Illinois, he would give speeches at the public library recounting his adventuresin Italy. At one of these lectures, one of the women in the audience was so taken by theyoung mans diction, she asked her husband, who was the editor of the Toronto Star, togive him a job. Hemingway wrote for the paper, and soon asked to be a foreigncorrespondent, so that he could move to Paris and begin his writing career (Baker, 28).Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1923, and became part of a circle of writers whichincluded Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It wasnt longbefore In Our Time was ready to be published, and with the help of his new friends thebook was being sold in Europe and America in no time. In Our Time is a collection ofshort stories that seemed to chronicle Hemingways life up to that point. This particularbook shows his unwillingness to expose any kind of weakness in his characters, becausehis characters are almost always composites of himself, however the writing is some ofhis finest (Nelson, 49).After the publication of In Our Time, Ernest had the most productive years of hislife. From 1925 to 1928, Hemingway would pump out novel after novel gaining him areputation world wide as one of the greatest authors of the day. It was in this period thatsuch works as The Sun Also Rises, The Torrents of Spring, and A Farewell to Arms we...
