American newspaperman whom Hemingway met in Paris in 1922, and with whom he traveled to cover news stories. The two became friendly, and the Hemingways and Birds would travel together.
Also in 1922, Bird purchased a printshop and opened the Three Mountains Press, which published Ernest's Three Stories and Ten Poems in 1923.
When Ernest left for his first taste of the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona in July of 1923, he traveled with Bird and Robert McAlmon.