The Paris Wife

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain is a fictionalized account of the love affair of Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Richardson. It examines their life in Paris during the Jazz Age as a part of the "Lost Generation." This included people like F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. The marriage was quite unconventional (as most relationships were with this group of people), which lead to many challenges.

If you read this and enjoyed it, you might also enjoy these titles. And if you haven't read The Paris Wife yet, you might want to take a look at some of these while you wait for your copy to come in.

Biographies of Hadley Richardson

Hadley, The First Mrs. Hemingway by Alice H. Sokoloff

Hadley by Gioia Deliberto

Books about the "Lost Generation"

Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch

Fiction
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