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.