Well, this is disapointing.
It’s a very compact, Hemingway-esque line, repeated often here in Oak Park. But it appears that Ernest Hemingway never said — or wrote — that his hometown was a place of “wide lawns and narrow minds.”
“We’ve never found it,” says Rose Marie Burwell, scholar and author of “Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels.”
Fans of Hemingway may enjoy the full article by Robert K. Elder of the Chicago Tribune.