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In this photograph, young Hemingway looks every bit the model for Nick Adams, the young man who was the hero in Hemingway's many short stories drawn in large part from his own youthful experiences in Michigan.



Hemingway on the beach of a lake in Michigan, summer 1916
Unidentified photographer
Image courtesy Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts



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Hemingway at age six
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