, ernest hemmingway almost is the first half of the american 20th century. he's born in 1899, just as the new century's about to begin, and he's of age to come under fire in world war i, to experience the growth of american literary modernism in paris, he goes to the spanish civil war, he's back under fire in world war ii and as well as being a wonderful writer of fiction, he's also a journalist. he's travelling the globe to the greco-turkish war, he's a citizen of the world. >> how did he get here to key west? >> he arrived he ever in the year 1928. he was returning from paris with his second wife, pauline pfeiffer. she was pregnant with their first child, seven months pregnant. their idea was to, tha they acty took an ocean liner to cuba, took a ferry from cuba to key west. they were going to pick up a car here. pauline pfeiffer's rich uncle was giving them a car to drive to her family home in arkansas. the car wasn't ready when they got here, so the ford dealership gave them a little apartment and they spent six weeks here waiting for that car. during tha