Harold Krebs Friend, who usually went by his middle name, wrote miscellaneous, often humorous, prose, published two volumes of poetry, and for a brief period in 1924-1925, owned the transatlantic review, edited by Ford Madox Ford. Friend met Ernest Hemingway at the end of 1920 when they were both on the staff of the Cooperative Commonwealth, a Chicago-based magazine published by the Cooperative Society of America, and Hemingway borrowed part of Friend's name for the character Harold Krebs in his short story "Soldier's Home" (1925). Friend, who was shell-shocked in World War I, arrived in Paris in 1924 married to an heiress named Henrietta who was forty years older than he. Hemingway convinced his newly wealthy friend to back Ford Madox Ford's financially troubled transatlantic review, and in August 1924, Friend was given the presidency of the magazine. But he and his wife were unable to prevent bankruptcy, and the transatlantic review...