Annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest begins in Florida Keys

Zach Taylor, the 2021 ‘Papa’ Hemingway Look-Alike Contest winner, shoves birthday cake into the face of 2022 winner Jon Auvil (Florida Keys News Bureau via AP)

Almost 140 bearded men who resemble Ernest Hemingway have converged on Key West, the late author’s home during the 1930s, to compete in the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.

The challenge is a highlight of the island’s Hemingway Days festival that salutes the literary talent and adventurous life of the Nobel Prize-winning writer.