Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Inspiration for “A Farewell to Arms” – Air Mail

Of Course It Kills Them

The secret inspiration for Ernest Hemingway’s greatest novel

By Amanda Vaill
January 4, 2025

Reading Time: 8 minutes

Editor’s Note: Airmail is a subscription site; to read You may need to sign up for a free look. Amanda Vaill is an American writer and editor, noted for her non-fiction. She lives in New York City. A graduate of Harvard University, she worked in publishing before becoming a writer full-time in 1992. In the 1970s Vaill was an editor at Viking Press alongside Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Wikipedia

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