Compared to the rest of the country, Clovis's cost of living is 2.10% Lower than the U.S. average. As of 2014, Clovis's population is 37,538 people. Since 2000, it has had a population growth of 15.12 percent. Average Commute time is 15 minutes.
On this day in 1918, Ernest Hemingway, an 18-year-old ambulance driver for the American Red Cross, is struck by a mortar shell while serving on the Italian front, along the Piave delta, in World War I.
Unlike his great contemporaries Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, Hemingway never wrote for the movies, but he had no objection to selling his novels and short stories to the studios. Coined the term The Jazz Age in reference to the Roaring Twenties.