Title: The Paris wife
Description: Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband's career.
Subjects: Authors' spouses, Marriage, Expatriate authors, American Authors, Fiction, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2012-12-16, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, biographical, Authors, fiction, Paris (france), fiction
Places: United States, Paris (France), France
People: Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Hadley Hemingway Mowrer (1891-1979)