she supports herself and her loyal servant the only way she knows how—by writing novels in secret

witty and gently wise

and wash their hands

In the late 1930s

Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year that Launched an American Legend Christian Social Issues she supports herself and herIn the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen year old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldnt make up his mind and eventually chose to begin a career in writing and journalism at the Kansas City Star, one of the great newspapers of its day. In six and a half months at the