I recently completed an assignment where I made a presentation of Twain and Hemingway and their view of the Midwest. I was asked by my instructor if Twain was an influence on Hemingway. I said that it was definitely so. Hemingway commented several times in interviews about the importance of Twain, and there is even a Nick Adams story (early Hemingway) where Nick crosses the Mississippi on train and sees the river for the first time, and in Carlos Baker's biography of Hemingway, the scene is autobiographical of Hemingway himself. As Baker had written, "Visions of Mark Twain, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer...crowded one another in his mind."And also from Baker's book- "Anyway," he thought happily, "I've seen the Mississippi." I feel that Twain had a great influence on Hemingway. Joseph Adams Western Illinois University Macomb, IL