American · b. 1965
Paula McLain is an American author best known for The Paris Wife, the bestselling historical novel told from the perspective of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley.
Paula McLain achieved wide success with historical fiction that gives voice to remarkable women on the margins of famous lives and events.
The Paris Wife (2011) became an international bestseller, narrating the marriage of Ernest and Hadley Hemingway against the backdrop of 1920s Paris. She followed it with Circling the Sun, about the aviator Beryl Markham in colonial Kenya, and Love and Ruin, returning to Hemingway through the journalist Martha Gellhorn.
McLain is admired for her evocative recreation of historical worlds and for centering the inner lives of women whose stories have often been overshadowed.
by Paula McLain
Paula McLain's bestselling novel imagines the marriage of Ernest Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley Richardson, in 1920s Paris. Narrated by Hadley, it portrays their love, the dazzling expatriate world of the Lost Generation, and the slow unraveling of a marriage in the shadow of genius.
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