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American writer Ernest Hemingway in the courtyard of his house in Paris, in Rue Notre Dame des Champs. Paris, 1924. (Mondadori Portfolio/Zuma Press/TNS)
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A young Ernest Hemingway was a regular at the Horton Bay General Store. Built in 1876, it still caters to summer visitors in Northern Michigan. (Katherine Rodeghier/Chicago Tribune/TNS)
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A photo of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson, hangs in the Horton Bay General Store near Petoskey, Michigan. The Hemingways were married in a church next door in 1921.
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A portrait of Ernest Hemingway looks down from the mahogany bar at City Park Grill in Petoskey, Michigan.
When Ernest Hemingway moved to Paris in 1921, he tacked a Michigan map up in his writing room.
Michigan inspired Hemingway s stories, and his parents planted Hemingway s local roots before he was born. A new three-part Public Broadcasting Service documentary, titled Hemingway, by Lynn Novick and Ken Burns, will explore the writer, giving insight into his Michigan roots while shattering popular myths surrounding his life.
A year before Hemingway was born, Clarence and Grace Hemingway bought waterfront property on Walloon Lake, located in Charlevoix County, in 1898. This would serve as the family s summer home when they weren t living in Oak Park, Illinois.
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In the City of Lights, Hemingway rubbed elbows with Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Despite the glitz and glamour of Paris, Hemingway tacked a Michigan map on his writing room wall and wrote stories about Seney, a town in the Upper Peninsula; Horton Bay, located in Charlevoix County, and Kalkaska, a town 30 minutes from Traverse City. He wrote what he knew and like any great artist, he invented parts, he left out parts, Federspiel said. He wrote for his own experience and tried to not make it autobiographical. But it was time that the character Nick Adams was born. Nick had many similar traits to Ernest Hemingway, but Hemingway himself would say It s not me. It s absolutely not me, but you can t help but see the parallels between the two.