In 1899 the Hemingways of Oak Park, Illinois, built a summer cottage called Windemere about six miles northwest of here on Walloon Lake. Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, spent his youth there reading, fishing, hunting, and boating. In 1921 he and Hadley Richardson married at a Methodist church in Horton Bay and honeymooned at Windemere. Although he later lived and traveled throughout the world, his boyhood experiences and the people he knew in Horton Bay and Walloon Lake continued to inspire his writing, and local friends such as Bill and Katy Smith and the Dilworths served as models for characters in his short stories and novels. He drove ambulances in Italy during World War I, attended bullfights in Pamplona, and hunted big game in Africa, but like those worldwide experiences, his adventures in Upper Michigan, where he spent idyllic summers as a youth, influenced his work throughout his career. In 1924 he authored "On Writing," a short story published in the 1972 anthology The Nick Adams Stories. Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.