Charles A. Fenton

The years 1916 to 1923 were the formative ones for Ernest Hemingway, and his development as a young writer is the substance of a forthright, illuminating book by CHARLES A. FENTON, from which the Atlantic has selected three telling installments. The earlier chapters depict Hemingway’s education in the high school of Oak Park, Illinois; his journalistic training on the Kansas City Start; his service as an ambulance driver in Italy, in the course of which he was severely wounded; his return to Chicago, and his friendship with Sherwood Anderson. In this installment we follow him to Paris. Mr. Fenton, an Instructor of English at Yale University, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and took his Ph.D. at New Haven in 1953. His book, The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Young this month.

The years 1916 to 1923 were the formative ones for Ernest Hemingway, and his development as a young writer is the substance of a forthright, illuminating book by CHARLES A. FENTON, from which the Atlantic has selected three telling installments. The first, depicting Hemingway’s education in the high school of Oak Park, Illinois, and his journalistic training on the Kansas City Star, appeared in our March issue. In this present installment WE follow Hemingway through his war experiences and on to his friendship with Sherwood Anderson. Mr. Fenton, an Instructor of English at Yale University, served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, took his Ph.D. at New Haven in 1953, and is note correcting proofs of his book, The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway, which will be published by Farrar, Straus & Young in May.

Ernest Hemingway’s apprenticeship as a writer begins in the high school of Oak Park, Illinois, where his two dedicated teachers of English encouraged, even prodded, him into print. After Oak Park came his journalistic training on the Kansas City Star; then his war experiences in Italy; then the stimulating friendships in Paris. CHARLES A. FENTON, Instructor of English at Yale University, has traced Hemingway’s development in the formative years 1916-1923, and from his book, The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway, which will be published this spring by Farrar, Straus & Young, the Atlantic has selected three installments. Mr. Fenton served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1953, and has recently been awarded a Morse Fellowship to work on a biography of the late Stephen Vincent Benét.