Monday, October 24, 2016

American Writers As Ambulence Drivers in WWI

At least 23 well known authors were ambulance drivers during World War I, including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, and Somerset Maugham. Robert Service, the writer of Yukon poetry including The Shooting of Dan McGrew, and Charles Nordhoff, co-author ofMutiny On the Bounty, also drove ambulances in the Great War. 

Read the full and fascinating story HERE on firstworldwar.com