Title
Hemingway in Kansas City: The True Dope on Violence and Creative Sources in a Vile and Lively Place
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Detailed comparison of chapter VIII of In Our Time to a brief 1917 news item on a cigar store robbery appearing in the Star to demonstrate how Hemingway’s time spent covering the violent and crime ridden streets of Kansas City translated into his later fiction.
Date
2014
Pages
1-13
COinS
Citation
Paul, Steve, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout, eds. War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2014.