Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway with friend Henry "Mike" Strater and an "apple-cored" marlin. Bimini, Cat Cay, 1935. Hemingway later described a giant marlin eaten like this by sharks in his 1952 novella 'The Old Man and the Sea.'

Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Photo number EH 8264P.

See our biography of Ernest Hemingway