![]() A graduate student in economics at the University of California at Berkeley, Merriman had left his teaching fellowship to spend a year in Moscow in 1935-36 after winning a Newton Booth Traveling Scholarship of nine hundred dollars.1 According to Merriman's wife, Marion, who accompanied him to Moscow and later to Spain, his interests were primarily in Soviet economics rather than the politics of revolutionary Russia.2 Wounded in March of 1936, Merriman early became one of the better-known American volunteers in the International Brigades. ![]() The most obvious example of Hemingway's transformational blending process is the model for Robert Jordan, who is based on the life and adventures of a young American from California named Robert Merriman. It is in this masterful blend of fact and fiction that For Whom the Bell Tolls achieves the status of a classic war novel. Many of the characters, as well as the events and places of the novel, are based on historical fact and on the exploits of people Hemingway knew or heard of while he was covering the war. Martin Michigan State University In writing For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway drew upon his experiences as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War much more extensively than is generally recognized. HEMINGWAY'S FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: FACT INTO FICTION Robert A. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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