A Farewell to Arms in Italy, which were later used as inspiration. Michael Reynolds, however, writes that Hemingway was not involved in the battles described. Because his previous novel, "The Sun Also Rises", had been written as a "roman à clef", readers assumed "A Farewell to Arms" to be autobiographical. "A Farewell to Arms" was begun during his time at Willis M. Spear's guest ranch in Wyoming's Bighorns. Some pieces of the novel were written in Piggott, Arkansas, at the home of his then wife Pauline Pfeiffer, and in Mission Hills, Kansas while she was awaiting delivery of their baby. Pauline underwent a caesarean
The Farewell Symphony The Farewell Symphony The Farewell Symphony is a 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White. It is the third of a trilogy of novels, being preceded by "A Boy's Own Story" (1982) and "The Beautiful Room Is Empty" (1988). It depicts the later adulthood of its protagonist and documents his experience of homosexuality from the 1960s to the 1990s. The title alludes to the "Farewell" Symphony by Joseph Haydn. Writing in "The Wall Street Journal", the journalist James Wolcott suggested that the book "might have been more honestly titled "Hilly Buttocks I Have Known,"" wherein the author "invites us to join