Hadley richardson hemingway biography powerpoint

I was going to read THE PARIS WIFE, recommended by several friends, when I saw this recent biography and decided to read it instead.

It reads like a novel and now I’m wondering if there’s any point in reading the fictional PARIS WIFE which I understand hews closely to the facts.

I say it reads like a novel because hanging over every detail, especially the early ones when Hemingway was an unknown midwesterner, full of doubt about his future, is the reader’s knowledge of whom he became – one of the 20th century’s great writers.

Hadley Richardson, a St. Louis native, eight years older than Hemingway, and the woman he would marry, is an inseparable part of the life he would grow into as a writer and it could be convincingly argued, as this biography does, that without her, he would not have succeeded.

Interestingly, their courtship was carried on mainly through letters, as she was living in St. Loui