Clarence Hemingway was a medical doctor with a small practice located in Oak Park, Illinois; his wife was a music teacher with an active interest in church affairs and Christian Science. ... Acting as a counterweight, Hemingway's mother tried to instill conventional values in her children in the designated role of the family as disciplinarian. ... A literary parody of his "sponsor" Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter and it was not a manuscript that his publishers had expected. ...

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