Photographs

Images

EH, about three, on a dock along Walloon Lake.

Images

EH, Grace Hemingway, and two of his sisters at Walloon Lake, Michigan, with a northern pike.

Images

EH fishing with a cane pole in Horton’s Creek, summer of 1904.

Images

EH, leather fly-rod case in hand, on a fishing trip, ca. 1915.

Images

EH headed for more fishing, ca. 1916.

Images

EH landing a small trout, ca. 1916.

Images

EH on a fishing trip, ca. 1916. Note the grasshopper-holding bottle around his neck that would find its way into “Big Two-Hearted River.”

Images

EH with four good trout, ca. 1916.

Images

EH with a large trout, ca. 1916.

Images

EH and Dos Passos compare tarpon, Key West, ca. 1928.

Images

EH in Key West, ca. 1928.

Images

EH holding a shark, Key West, ca. 1928.

Images

EH with Bill Smith off Key West, pulling in a barracuda, ca. 1928.

Images

EH geared up for fly-fishing, Wyoming, ca. 1928.

Images

EH measures a large marlin, ca. 1932/33.

Images

EH and Jack, ca. 1933/34.

Images

The Pilar underway.

Images

EH with a silver marlin, ca. 1934.

Images

EH with Sidney Franklin, July 1934. The marlin weighed 420 pounds.

Images

EH with a blue marlin, ca. 1934.

Images

EH with a blue marlin, Havana harbor, ca. 1934.

Images

EH and Carlos Gutierrez, at the wheel of the Pilar, ca. 1934.

Images

Waiting on the Pilar, ca. 1935.

Images

“And he was living with a beautiful Belgian whore . . . ”

Images

EH with Patrick, Jack, and a 381-pound tuna, ca. 1935.

Images

EH and tuna, ca. 1935.

Images

EH the marlin killer, with sons Patrick, Jack, and Gregory in Havana, ca. 1935.

Images

EH with a marlin, ca. 1935.

Images

EH with his prize 542-pound blue marlin, ca. 1935.

Images

EH asleep with a drink, his favorite Thompson submachine gun, and Jack, aboard the Pilar, ca. 1935.

Images

EH bathing on the Pilar, ca. 1939.

Images

EH with another great marlin, ca. 1948.