Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899- July 2, 1961) an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Born in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway adopted his father's outdoorsman hobbies of hunting, fishing and camping in the woods and lakes of Northern Michigan. The family owned a house called Windemere on Michigan's Walloon Lake often spending summers vacationing there. These early experiences in close contact with nature instilled in Hemingway a lifelong passion for outdoor adventure and for living in remote or isolated areas.
Hemingway received the Pulitzer prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. During his later life, Hemingway suffered from increasing physical and mental problems and ultimately took his own life.
You can get all the facts at Wikipedia's entry on Ernest Hemingway and through the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, but we're hoping that you'll help us build a better picture on Hemingway - especially his time in and writing about Michigan - by posting links and thoughts in the comments below.
We're going to feature videos about Hemingway, and the first video explains The Great Michigan Read, a statewide program that seeks to get people in Michigan reading the same story - Hemingway's posthumous collection The Nick Adams Stories - at the same time. Find out more at the link!
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Eat like Hemingway:
Craig Boreth has written The Hemingway Cookbook, which takes you from Nick Adams's streamside coffee and canned beans with ketchup to Jake's roast suckling pig at Casa BotÃn. If a new cookbook isn't in your budget, you can still get Hemingway's Trout Recipe - we'll take you to some of his favorite Michigan trout streams in a future post!
...of course, if you're going to eat like Hemingway, you might as well talk like Hemingway too!
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For more information on Ernest Hemingway, visit Timeless Hemingway:
http://www.timelesshemingway.com
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Drink Like Hemingway (maybe not all the time though)
Here's picture of Hemingway's barstool at the City Park Grill in Petoskey.
Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure takes you past a few more of Hemingway's favorite watering holes. Another one is Sloppy Joe's in Key West. Owner Joe Russell was a charter boat captain, rumrunner, Hemingway's boat pilot, and the author's fishing companion for twelve years and it was there that Hemingway purportedly invented the Papa Doble daquiri.
Listen to Hemingway reading Harry's Bar in Venice from Salon.com.
If you'd like to throw a party nobody will forget, how about the Hemingway Home in Key West (click parties for rental info).
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