Nick Adams (character)

Nicholas Adams is a fictional character, the protagonist of two dozen short stories and vignettes written in the 1920s and 1930s by American author Ernest Hemingway.^[1] Adams is partly inspired by Hemingway's own experiences, from his summers in Northern Michigan at his family cottage to his service in the Red Cross ambulance corps in World War I. The first of Hemingway's stories to feature Nick Adams was published in his 1925 collection In Our Time , with Adams appearing as a young child in "Indian Camp", the collection's first story.

All Nick Adams stories were later collected in a 1972 book, published after Hemingway's death, titled The Nick Adams Stories . They are, for the most part, stories of initiation and adolescence. Taken as a whole, as in The Nick Adams Stories, they chronicle a young man's coming of age in a series of linked episodes. The stories are grouped according to major time periods in Nick's life.

• Hemingway, Ernest. The Nick Adams Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972.
• New York Times review of The Nick Adams Stories
• The Great Michigan Read, a statewide reading program featuring The Nick Adams Stories

• Author surrogates
• Characters in American novels of the 20th century
• Ernest Hemingway
• Literary characters introduced in 1924
• Fictional World War I veterans
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