He got his first break as a writer just out of high school, as a beat reporter for the Kansas City Star.  
He got his first break as a writer just out of high school, as a beat reporter for the Kansas City Star.  In the early twenties he found his way to Paris where writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein helped him publish his first collection, Three Stories and Ten Poems. This was followed by the publication in 1926 of one of the most important novels to emerge from the American Expatriate community of the 20's.  FTP name this author of The Sun Also Rises.
He got his first break as a writer just out of high school, as a beat reporter for the Kansas City Star.  
Ernest Hemingway