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Article Excerpt
From 9-15 June 2008, The Hemingway Society will hold its biennial international conference in Kansas City, Missouri, where a teenaged Hemingway worked as a cub reporter on The Kansas City Star in 1917 and 1918. Here Mark Zieman, editor of the Star, welcomes the Society with a look at the city's attractions, a wealth of anecdotes about Hemingway's time with the newspaper, and extensive quotation from a previously unpublished Hemingway letter to his father about his fast-paced life at the Star.
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IN THE EARLY 1900s, an ambitious young man applied for work at The Kansas City Star. He had little experience, but showed great promise. He had family connections. He was eager and would work for low pay.
We turned him down. His name was Walt Disney. His dad ran a Star delivery route and Walt wanted to try his hand at drawing for the newspaper. But we already had a staff artist. Some of our reporters, on the other hand, were abandoning journalism to join up for the war in Europe. So about the same time we turned down Walt, we took a gamble on another raw, talented kid fresh out of high school named Ernest Hemingway.
We got that one right.
On 9-15 June 2008, The Star will be proud to welcome the Hemingway Society's international conference to Kansas City. We don't claim a perfect hiring record. But we hope to be gracious hosts as we show off our city and celebrate the role this newspaper played in training and developing one of the 20th century's most legendary authors.
The Star will welcome conference visitors--some of the world's top Hemingway scholars plus academics, grad students, our friends Patrick and Carol Hemingway, and Hemingway fans from around the world--with a reception at our new $200-million, state-of-the-art downtown printing plant and with opportunities to tour the newspaper.
Our soaring glass-and-copper press...
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