Federspiel expertly pairs Hemingway's vacation snapshots with vivid passages from The Nick Adams Stories and A Moveable Feast that seem to spell out in words what you see in the photographs. . . Picturing Hemingway's Michigan is a satisfying read and a fascinating insight into a great writer's process from memory to imagination to the written page."

It's unlikely that this beautifully produced text-and-photos archive will ever be superseded; libraries, collections and the Hemingway family offered unique materials to Michael Federspiel, president of the Michigan Hemingway Society. The Hemingways, particularly young Ernest, and the attractions of Little Traverse Bay and the Petoskey area in the 1899-1920s are abundantly depicted. A must for Hemingway (and Nick Adams) enthusiasts."

Combining vintage Hemingway family photos with excerpts from Hemingway's writings, 'Picturing Hemingway's Michigan' is an exemplary and unique approach to regional American history and a highly recommended addition to academic and community library collections, as well as inherently fascinating, informed, and informative reading for students and fans of Ernest Hemingway's work.

Picturing Hemingway's Michigan by Michael R. Federspiel, explores Hemingway's connection to the state. In photos, postcards, maps, posters and snapshots, the book chronicles Northern Michigan summers in the early 1900s, highlighting their profound effect on your Ernest and his later writing. The book also underscores the mind-boggling logistics of taking a large family north for the entire summer in the early 1900s."

Picturing Hemingway's Michigan knits together sort pieces of text around scanned photos, documents and even newspaper articles to place the future writer in an environment later shared with readers in short stories and novels that helped to revolutionize the American novel."

Federspiel's lively book is chock-full of Hemingway family life, chronicled in more that 250 photos. But this is no mere pretty nostalgic picture book. Federspiel is obviously familiar with Hemingway's oeuvre, and laces the text with literary references and observations."

Federspiel has done a wonderful job not only placing Hemingway's Midwestern work in its historical context, but also describing the Michigan of the time, its hotels, its waterfronts, its resorts. The text is accompanied by attractive period illustrations, maps, and archival photographs, many from the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston (a photograph of a teenage Hemingway aboard a Michigan steamship is a revelation). This is a marvelous document of a lost time and place and a must for Hemingway fans."

Federspiel's book, Picturing Hemingway's Michigan, published by Wayne State University Press, is a magnum opus in both its look and its content. The book would have been superlative if only the words painted the picture of a young man's formative years, but with more than 250 images, many never seen outside archive walls, the publication becomes a work of art."