Soldier's Home
Soldier's Home can be considered an autobiographical since it tells a story about a person's life. Soldier's Home talks about the effects that the war had on Kreb, a soldier from Kansas who left to join the marines in 1917. “Soldier’s Home” mainly revolves around Harold Krebs. Harold is a young soldier who has returned from war and is tormented by the experiences that he had faced. As the story goes on, Harold eventually comes to realize that he shouldn’t be in his childhood home anymore and he is hence lost with what to do with his life. Even though Soldier's Home is not written or narrated by Kreb himself, it can still be considered a biographical story since many similarities have been found between him and the author Ernest Hemingway. Many believe that Hemingway portraits himself through this character. It is quite common that authors replicate their identity and their own lives into characters of their stories. Hemingway did just so in Soldier's home, most likely to make certain confessions from his own life.
For example, in the story, Hemingway states that Kreb is from Kansas pointing out the fact that he is extremely religious. Similarly, Hemingway's mother was known to be a religiously puritanical woman, active in church affairs, and led her boy to play the cello and sing in the choir. Also, Ernest Hemingway faced certain interactions with soldiers and war during a specific period in his lifetime. He left his job in the magazine Kansas Star to join World War One, where he served as a Red Cross ambulance driver. He was injured during a delivery run which was the last rout of his career. From then on, his writings that followed were frequently about death and psychological trauma associated with war. Hence, both Hemingway and Kreb suffer from a troubled family life after returning from World War One.
Therefore, as a conclusion, there are many similarities between Hemingway, the author of the story, and the Kreb, the character which he created. Many authors replicate facts and events that occurred in their own life into characters in short stories. Ernest Hemingway did such in “A Soldiers Home” since he was somehow retelling his youth through it. 
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