Description: (American Nurse and Ernest Hemingway's Lover)
Agnes Hannah von Kurowsky Stanfield was an American nurse who served in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan during World War I. Her interactions with Ernest Hemingway, one of her patients, inspired the character "Catherine Barkley" in Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms. Kurowsky's professional focus during the war was nursing and caring for wounded soldiers. Although she and Hemingway had a brief but impactful relationship, Kurowsky ultimately became engaged to an Italian officer, ending any plans for marriage between her and Hemingway.