![]() ![]() ![]() Hemingway was wounded by mortar fire after bringing goods to Italian soldiers at the front line and returned home to Michigan thereafter, using his experiences with shell shock as a basis for one of his most famous characters, the soldier Nick Adams, a wounded soldier who finds solitude in the Michigan countryside after war in the short story “Big Two-Hearted River.” Hemingway returned to Europe and settled in Paris with his first wife, Hadley, in 1921, eager to start over in a city famous for its communities of expatriate artists. Cummings, John Dos Passos, and Gertrude Stein-who identified with the Allied Powers’ cause but, for reasons of gender or age, could not participate in combat. ![]() In 1918, shortly after the advent of World War I, Hemingway traveled to Italy to become a volunteer ambulance driver, joining a cohort of American artists-including E. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, a suburb outside of Chicago, where he was raised in a wealthy, educated family and harbored dreams of becoming a journalist. ![]()
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