CSPAN2 Book TV July 3, 2011
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,...