Dateline: Toronto is a collection of most of the stories that Ernest Hemingway wrote as a stringer and later staff writer and foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star between 1920 and 1924. The stories were written while Hemingway was in his early 20s before he became well-known, and show his development as a writer. The collection was edited by William White, a professor of English literature and journalism at Wayne State University, and a regular contributor to The Hemingway Review. In 1920, after returning from World War I, Hemingway moved to Toronto where he began freelancing for the... Toronto Star Weekly, part of the Toronto Star. For his earliest work, Hemingway was paid $5 and eventually hired by the paper. On March 6, 1920, Ernest M. Hemingway received his first byline for the Toronto Star Weekly, a story entitled "Taking a Chance for a Free Shave." The story was about a trip to a barber college, where shaves were free, but performed by inexperienced barbers still in training. Hemingway continued writing features at a rate of about one a week. He stayed in Toronto off and on for two years, earning about $45 a week.
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