For which newspaper did Hemingway work as a foreign correspondent?

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Hemingway worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. He began writing for the newspaper's publications in the early 1920s, first contributing to the Toronto Star Weekly and later filing dispatches for the Toronto Daily Star.

After returning from World War I, Hemingway moved to Toronto and developed his journalistic voice through reports, features, and human-interest stories. In December 1921, he traveled to Europe with his first wife, Hadley Richardson, and wrote about postwar conditions as a foreign correspondent. His assignments took him to places including France, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain.

The Toronto Star's concise style and demand for vivid detail influenced Hemingway's later prose. He wrote about subjects ranging from politics and economic issues to boxing, bullfighting, and everyday life. His journalism also helped finance his transition into literary fiction. Hemingway eventually left the Star after tensions with editor Harry Hindmarsh, but the newspaper remained an important early professional platform.

A frequent mix-up is the Kansas City Star, where Hemingway worked as a young reporter in 1917. That job came before his Toronto Star career and was not the newspaper associated with his foreign-correspondent work.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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