s. He put his first book together, Three Stories and Ten Poems. A few months later he published his second book, In Our Time. In these stories he mixed in personal experiences from his childhood summers in Michigan, his war experiences, and bullfighting in Spain. The main character in a few of his stories, Nick Adams, was closely modeled after him. Hemingway's love for the outdoors also influenced his writing. He wrote a book called Big Two Hearted River about a trout-fishing expedition. Critics loved his use of language, and he grew more and more popular. In August 1923 the Hemingways left Europe to await the birth of their baby in the United States. In 1924 they !
             returned to Paris. "By 1925 he had a definite literary reputation" (Seymour-Smith 1182). In July 192
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