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More About the Writer |
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Hemingway’s
Home
What do you think happened to Krebs after
he left his parents’ home? Perhaps he wrote for a newspaper, moved to
Paris, became a bullfighter, and began publishing novels. It’s not that
far-fetched. In fact, Krebs shares many characteristics with his creator,
Ernest Hemingway. Visit The Hemingway Resource Center to find out why
“Soldier’s Home” almost could have been called “Hemingway’s
Home.”
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Picturing
Hemingway
If you’ve ever had a teacher scold
you for sloppy penmanship, you’re not alone. Hemingway’s teacher once gave
him a D because his paper was illegible. Visit the National Portrait
Gallery to see the writing assignment Hemingway almost failed. Then,
stroll through the exhibit to find out how a kid with poor penmanship
became one of the most famous writers of the twentieth
century.
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Literature and Popular Culture, pages
656–657 |
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The Decade That
Roared
During the Roaring Twenties, America’s
young folks spent their time turning their elders’ notions of decency—and
just about everything else—upside down. Meet some of the movers and
shakers of the decade at the Louise Brooks Society.
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Crossing the Curriculum:
History |
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The (Not So) Great
War
In “Soldier’s Home,” Hemingway suggests
that Krebs had fought at Belleau Wood—one of the roughest battles in World
War I. To better understand Krebs’s emotional difficulties after the war,
step into the trenches at this World War I site. Read Floyd Gibbons’s
gruesome account of being wounded at Belleau Wood. Then, check out
statistics of war casualties.
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