Traveling the World with Hemingway comes out in June. Written By: Leah Ward | ×
Curtis DeBerg is pictured at Horton Creek, Michigan, where Ernest Hemingway learned to fish as a boy. (Submitted photo)
A third-generation Rock Rapids, Iowa, native turned Paris, France resident has spent the last five years traveling the world doing research and is now ready to release his book chronicling the life of American writer Ernest Hemingway.
Curtis DeBerg grew up in northwest Iowa, graduated from the University of Northern Iowa and spent several years working as a certified public accountant in Des Moines. After completing a Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University, DeBerg moved to Chico, California, where he taught financial accounting at California State University for 40 years.