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Hemingway married Pauline in May 1927, and they went to Le Grau-du-Roi on a honeymoon. [7] [8] Pauline's family was wealthy and Catholic; before the marriage, Hemingway converted to Catholicism. [9] By the end of the year Pauline, who was pregnant, wanted to move back to America. John Dos Passos recommended Key West, and they left Paris in ...
In Paris, Hemingway pursued a writing career, and through him Richardson met other expatriate American and British writers. In 1926, Richardson learned of Hemingway's affair with Pauline Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer had been Richardson's best friend and had lived and traveled with the Hemingways. Richardson divorced Hemingway in 1927.
Pauline Pfeiffer joined them in January, and—against Hadley's advice—urged him to sign a contract with Scribner's. Hemingway left Austria for a quick trip to New York to meet with the publishers, and on his return, during a stop in Paris, began an affair with Pauline. He returned to Schruns to finish the revisions in March. [13]
The Paris Wife was popular with readers, and "shot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list soon after its release in 2011." [2] Author Helen Simonson praised the book for "its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds—poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships—to cling on to each other". [3]
In 2009, another edition, titled the "Restored Edition", was published by Hemingway's grandson Seán Hemingway, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [9] and Pauline Pfeiffer. The 2009 edition made numerous changes: The introductory letter by Hemingway, pieced together from various fragments by Mary Hemingway, [citation needed] was removed.
Mellow argues the genesis of the story began during Hemingway's honeymoon with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, and shortly after his divorce from Hadley Richardson. The male protagonist's depiction as a young writer, and the woman's depiction as "attractive, exciting, wealthy" mirrored the days spent in Le Grau-du-Roi with Pauline. [20]
Some pieces of the novel were written in Piggott, Arkansas, at the home of his then-wife Pauline Pfeiffer, [9] and in Mission Hills, Kansas, while she was awaiting delivery of their baby. [10] Pauline underwent a caesarean section as Hemingway was writing the scene about Catherine Barkley's childbirth. [11] Hemingway struggled with the ending.
Pound's commission turned Hemingway's attention toward fiction, and had profound consequences on his development as a writer. [8] Hemingway and his wife Hadley on winter holiday in Chamby , 1922. On December 2, 1922, nearly all of Hemingway's early writing – his juvenilia and apprentice fiction, including the duplicates – was lost.