Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea.
Hemingway said of “Big Two-Hearted River” that “The change of name was made purposely, not from ignorance nor carelessness but because Big Two-Hearted River is poetry, and because there were many Indians in the story, just as the war was in the story, and none of the Indians nor the war appeared.”
(Source: “The Art of the Short Story.” New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990. p. 3.)
The Hemingways spent a lot of vacations at their house in—you guessed it—Michigan.