[Sacajaweau]

$13,000 back then......Can the $187,000 headline be more phony??

[miss marmelstein]

Just reading Hemingway’s biography now. He was an insane liar - he claimed to have killed 129 Germans in battle although he wasn’t in any armed forces (he was a journalist in the field). His lies about his participation in WWI (he was an ambulance driver in Italy) are drawfed by his drunken, paranoid lies about WWII.

That being said, he and Fitzgerald are the greatest American short story writers.

[Gamecock]

Was a rat hat itemized on that voucher?

[Daffynition]

So cat, *What do you think?*

[MinuteGal]

Ernest Hemingway (born in 1899) grew up where I grew up.....in my home town of Oak Park, Illinois. Oak Park was an early suburb west of Chicago, a tree-lined, sedate, middle-to-upper class village populated by many well-schooled people, educators, intellectuals in the arts and sciences, retired teachers, commuting Chicago business executives etc....a place that Ernest found terribly stuffy. His father was a doctor.

His house was a couple miles north on my same street. He graduated from Oak Park High, my alma mater....at that time rated the sixth-highest high school education-wise in the entire country.

His birth home is quite a popular tourist destination with tours showing visitors the furnishings and decor of the times.

The always-restless, adventure-seeking Hemingway couldn't wait to get out of this quiet, staid suburb that bored him to death. He DID get out right after graduation, vowing NEVER to return.

And he never DID return, except early-on for a family death.

His books made wonderful movies, always featuring the greatest stars of the wonderful Golden Age of Movies. I saw and loved them all...and I still watch for them to turn up on TV !

Leni