KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Some got here in wool fisherman’s sweaters, and different contestants had sportsmen’s apparel.
Nevertheless it used to be the cream-colored sweater of legal professional Jon Auvil that stuck the attention of judges who awarded him the identify for many corresponding to creator and previous Key West resident Ernest Hemingway.
Auvil triumphed Saturday night time over 124 different contestants for the identify in the once a year Hemingway Glance-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, the Key West status quo the place the creator used to be an ordinary patron all the way through his decade-long place of dwelling at the island within the Nineteen Thirties.
The look-a-like contest is a spotlight of Key West’s annual Hemingway Days birthday party, which ended Sunday.
Auvil mentioned he stocks Hemingway’s interest for fishing, has written some fiction and would care to do extra writing.
“Each and every guy desires to write down like Hemingway,” mentioned Auvil, who lives in Dade Town, Florida, northeast of Tampa.
Whilst residing in Key West, Hemingway wrote classics, together with “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “To Have and Have No longer.”