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“What a writer should try to do is to write as truly as he can. For a writer has to invent out of what he knows in order to make something not photographic, or naturalistic, or realistic, which will be something entirely new and invented out of his own knowledge . . . What a writer should try to do is to make something which will be so written that it will become a part of experience of those who read him.” Hemingway 1954 (Harvey Breit p 77) “He became the most influential and most imitated writer. He dared deal (without saying so in speech or discourse) with what Faulkner has called ‘the eternal verities of the heart.’ Passion and wit, brutality and love, lust and ethical concern, action and morality all found their substantial shapes in Hemingway’s terse, quintessential and yet (paradoxically) natural language.” (Breit p 79) Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in 1899 in Chicago. In 1917 he joined the Kansas City “Star” as a cub reporter. The following year he volunteered to work as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. There he also did some reporting. He returned to America in 1919 and married in 1921. Attracted by the anonymi