Ernest Hemingwayis recognized as one of the iconic and influential writers of the twentieth century. He started out working for theKansas City Starand later theToronto Star. He eventually traveled to Europe where he became an ambulance driver for the Italian army in WWI. Some of Hemingway's most popular novels includeA Farewell to Arms(1929)andThe Old Man and the Sea(1952). Robert Wheeler has been a Hemingway enthusiast since reading his first Hemingway novel in 1986. For the past ten years, he has been a professor at Southern New Hampshire University where he teaches courses in writing and on Hemingway. He was the recipient of the coveted Excellence in Teaching Award for 2006. He is the author of Hemingway's Paris and Hemingway's Havana.
"""[Hemingway] writes as if he had never read anybody's writing, as if he had fashioned the art of writing himself."" --The Atlantic ""The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost."" --The Wall Street Journal ""Magnificent. . . . An absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heart-breaking narrative . . . It is a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard athletic prose."" --The New York Times"