Hemingway had a reputation for independence and for being a starving writer who wrote his way out of poverty, whereas in fact his first two wives provided a cushy, financial berth. Hadley’s $ ...

Just before her train left, Hadley abandoned her luggage briefly to buy water. When she returned, the suitcase containing all of Hemingway’s fiction was gone. But what if it wasn’t?

Learn more about the women who married Ernest Hemingway - and who they were before and after their lives intersected with the famed author. Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first wife of Ernest ...

Hemingway holds court with Parisian expatriate friends. Harold Loeb (left) served as the model for Robert Cohn in "A Sun Also Rises." Hadley is on the right. The Hemingway apartment is once again ...