Listen: Hemingway’s Unrequited High School Crush
by Robert K. Elder
Nov 29, 2017
3 minutes
It was as if a lightning bolt struck the teenage Ernest Hemingway, right there in the orchestra pit. Although Frances Coates, seventeen, was only cast as “Third Servant” in the high school performance of Martha, her brief opera solo made an impact on Hemingway, sixteen, who was playing cello and gazing up at her.
The biographer Carlos Baker describes how a classmate of Hemingway’s made a caricature of a boy
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