Challenged by fellow writers to tell a full story in six words, novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote, “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” According to legend, Hemingway penned the story in a few minutes on ...
Virtually 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 who wrote like ...
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 provided Virtually everyone has heard of Ernest ...