1930's Government and Politics | "Hemingway Reports Spain"

Magazine article

By: Ernest Hemingway

Date: April 27, 1938

Source: Hemingway, Ernest. "Hemingway Reports Spain." The New Republic, April 27, 1938, 350–51. American Decades Primary Sources, 1930–1939

About the Author: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) was one of the United States' best known authors of the twentieth-century. He began his career as a reporter, but soon found his way to writing novels and short stories. Following World War I (1914–1918) he moved to Paris and became part of a literary American expatriate group. Hemingway's best known novels include The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

Introduction

In the years following World War I, Spain was in a nearly continual state of turmoil. Although technically a constitutional monarchy the country was...