Northern Michigan and a small cottage on Walloon Lake named "Windemere" served as the summer home for the Hemingway family of Oak Park, Illinois, from Ernest Hemingway's infancy in 1899 until his marriage in nearby Horton Bay in September 1921. In January 1920, near this spot, he was photographed ready to leave Petoskey for a job in Toronto after spending several months there recuperating from World War I wounds and working diligently to become "a writer." His first published fiction included short stories written in Paris that followed "Nick Adams" through locations around Northern Michigan, and these stories, reflecting his love of the outdoors in the region, brought his revolutionary writing style to the attention of New York City publishers in the early 1920s. Two novels followed, and within a few years of leaving Northern Michigan he had become a famous author known to readers around the world. His fiction ultimately earned the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes in literature and secured his enduring status as one of the country's greatest writers.