Did a censored female writer inspire Hemingway's famous style?
- Written by Cynthia Wachtell, Research Associate Professor of American Studies & Director of the S. Daniel Abrham Honors Program, Yeshiva University
A photograph of Ellen N. La Motte soon after completing 'The Backwash of War' in 1916.Courtesy of the National Archives, College Park, Maryland, Author providedVirtually everyone has heard of Ernest Hemingway. But you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who knows of Ellen N. La Motte.
People should.
She is the extraordinary World War I nurse...
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