Michael Reynolds, however, writes that Hemingway was not involved in the battles described. Because his previous novel, The Sun Also Rises, had been written as a roman à clef, readers assumed A Farewell to Arms to be autobiographical. A Farewell to Arms was begun during his time at Willis M. Spear's guest ranch in Wyoming's Bighorns.Spear-o-Wigwam history. Some pieces of the novel were written in Piggott, Arkansas, at the home of his then-wife Pauline Pfeiffer, and in Mission Hills, Kansas, while she was awaiting delivery of their baby."A Writer's Haunts: Where He Worked and Where He Lived". Pauline underwent a caesarean section as Hemingway was writing the scene about Catherine Barkley's childbirth.Meyers (1985), 216–217.
Michael Reynolds, however, writes that Hemingway was not involved in the battles described. Because his previous novel, The Sun Also Rises, had been written as a roman à clef, readers assumed A Farewell to Arms to be autobiographical. A Farewell to Arms was begun during his time at Willis M. Spear's guest ranch in Wyoming's Bighorns.Spear-o-Wigwam history. Some pieces of the novel were written in Piggott, Arkansas, at the home of his then-wife Pauline Pfeiffer, and in Mission Hills, Kansas, while she was awaiting delivery of their baby."A Writer's Haunts: Where He Worked and Where He Lived". Pauline underwent a caesarean section as Hemingway was writing the scene about Catherine Barkley's childbirth.Meyers (1985), 216–217.