BY KAREN BOSSICK

Did Ernest Hemingway, who called Ketchum home, kill 122 Nazis during World War II? Did he really fight champion Gene Tunney?

Robert K. Elder will answer those questions and others in his presentation “Mythbusting Hemingway” at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at Ketchum’s Community Library.

Elder and Thomas Bevilacqua delved into scores of stories about the man who has been called “The Most Interesting Man in the World” as part of the work they did for the Paris Review, Chicago Tribune and Huffington Post.

And their book, Mythbusting Hemingway, answers these longstanding questions and more about the legendary author who won both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, survived back-to-back plane crashes, played the cello, once shot himself in the leg while hunting sharks and brawled with Orson Welles.

The authors also unearthed an original essay—never before published in a book—from Frances Elizabeth Coates, Hemingway's high school crush and classmate, about growing up in Oak Park with the young man who would become the legend.

To save your seat, RSVP at https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/13333087. Or, watch it online at https://vimeo.com/event/5217013 or later on the Library’s Archive.