Jed Kiley, born John Gerald Kiley in Chicago, lived a varied life, working as a journalist, editor, nightclub owner, screenwriter, and free-lance writer. The chief source of information about Kiley is his own memoir of Ernest Hemingway, published in 1956 and 1957 as a series of articles in Playboy, and in book form as Hemingway An Old Friend Remembers (1965). According to the publisher's introduction to this book, Kiley attended St. Viator's in Bourbonnais, Illinois, and the University of Wisconsin before becoming a reporter for the Chicago Examiner. In 1916 he left his job to join the National Guard and serve in the punitive expedition against Pancho Villa in Mexico. Subsequently he worked for the Chicago Tribune for a short time before going to France as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, he joined the army and was assigned duty with...