In Our Time

Hemingway was 19 years old when in 1918, shortly after he was posted to the Italian Front as a Red Cross ambulance driver, he sustained a severe wound from mortar fire. For the next six months, he recuperated in a Milan hospital, where he fell in love with nurse Agnes von Kurowsky. Shortly after his return to the US, she informed him that she was engaged to an Italian officer. Soon after, he turned to journalism. A few months after marrying Hadley Richardson in 1921, he was posted to Paris as international correspondent for the Toronto Star, reporting on the Greco-Turkish War and sporting events in Spain and Germany.