How driving ambulances during World War I inspired Hemingway

Michael Riedel
Sun, 19 Mar 2017 06:02:05 -0400

When it comes to visionaries, give war a chance. Several major artists and innovators of the 20th century served as volunteer ambulance drivers during World War I, shaping their experiences on the battlefield into groundbreaking works. The carnage horrified poet E.E. Cummings, who drove an ambulance in France. He would go on to fracture his...