Attorney Takes Home Top Prize In Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — Some got here in wool fisherman’s sweaters, and different contestants had sportsmen’s apparel.

Nevertheless it was the cream-colored sweater of lawyer Jon Auvil that caught the attention of judges who awarded him the title for many resembling creator and former Key West resident Ernest Hemingway.

Auvil triumphed Saturday night time over 124 different contestants for the title within the annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, the Key West institution the place the creator was an everyday patron throughout his decade-long residence on the island within the Thirties.

Jon Auvil, heart, receives an Ernest Hemingway bust and congratulations after he received the 2022 Hemingway Look-Alike Contest at Sloppy Joe's Bar in Key West, Fla.

Andy Newman/Florida Keys Information Bureau by way of AP

The look-a-like contest is a spotlight of Key West’s annual Hemingway Days celebration, which ended Sunday.

Auvil stated he shares Hemingway’s ardour for fishing, has written some fiction and want to do extra writing.

“Each man desires to write down like Hemingway,” stated Auvil, who lives in Dade Metropolis, Florida, northeast of Tampa.

Whereas dwelling in Key West, Hemingway wrote classics, together with “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and “To Have and Have Not.”