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HEMINGWAY AND KANSAS CITY
When Ernest Hemingway arrived in Kansas City for the first time, he was eighteen years old, fresh out of high school in Oak Park and just past his last boyhood summer up in Michigan. It had been a summer of indecision regarding his future, but he finally took what seemed like an easy and exciting option. An uncle in Kansas City knew an editor at The Kansas City Star, and the introduction could land him a job. Besides, his new summer friend Carl Edgar was also working in Kansas City, and Ernest was eager to have his older buddy as another escape route from family.
Kansas City was a crossroads town, where East and West, North and South collided, not only geographically but culturally as well. It was a bustling and gritty urban gateway to the West. In the Hemingway world, it typically represents the brief hinge between Oak Park and Italy. Kansas City gave Hemingway his apprenticeship in the writing business, and a launching pad to Europe and beyond. No looking back.
A closer look can reveal a different story about Hemingway's relationship to Kansas City. And that closer look could yield a rich new...
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Bulletin board., March 22, 2007
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