<P> "My Old Man" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway, published in his 1923 book Three Stories and Ten Poems, which published by a small Paris imprint . The story was also included in his next collection of stories, In Our Time, published in New York in 1925 by Boni & Liveright . The story tells of a boy named Joe whose father is a steeplechase jockey, and is narrated from Joe's point - of - view . </P> <P> "My Old Man" was written in 1922 . As one of Hemingway's earliest stories, it is generally regarded by critics as juvenilia, along with "Up in Michigan", also published in Three Stories and Ten Poems . Critical attention focuses chiefly on three issues: Sherwood Anderson's influence, the story's narrative structure, and the question of whether Joe's father is moral or immoral . </P> <P> The story was the basis for the 1950 film Under My Skin, and the 1979 television film My Old Man . </P> <P> Hemingway and his wife Hadley lived in Paris, where he was foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star from 1922 until Hadley became pregnant in 1923 when they returned to Toronto . During his absence, Bill Bird's Parisian Three Mountains Press published a small collection of Hemingway's work, Three Stories and Ten Poems, which included "My Old Man". During the "great suitcase debacle" of the previous year, when a suitcase containing all of Hemingway's manuscripts was stolen from Hadley at a Paris train station, "My Old Man" was one of two stories to survive because it was in the post to editors . </P>

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