Indian Camp Indian Camp "Indian Camp" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine "Transatlantic Review" in Paris and republished by Boni & Liveright in Hemingway's first American volume of short stories "In Our Time" in 1925. Hemingway's semi-autobiographical character Nick Adams—a child in this story—makes his first appearance in "Indian Camp", told from his point of view. In the story Nick Adams' father, a country doctor, has been summoned to a Native American or "Indian" camp to deliver a pregnant woman of her baby. At the camp, the
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