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Author photo. Agnes von Kurowsky, circa 1918. Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Agnes von Kurowsky, circa 1918. Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

Agnes Von Kurowsky (1892–1984)

Author of Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky

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1892-01-05
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1984-09-25
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female
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USA
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Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
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Washington, D.C., USA
New York, New York, USA
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Bellevue Hospital Nurses Training Program
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nurse
librarian
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American Red Cross
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Agnes von Kurowsky, later Stanfield, is said to have been the original for the character of Catherine Barkley in Ernest Hemingway's novel "A Farewell to Arms." She was serving as a nurse in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan during World War I when Hemingway was treated there.
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