Paula McLain

Paula McLain (born 1965) is an American author of several novels, two collections of poetry, and a memoir. Her novel The Paris Wife, a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's marriage to Hadley Richardson, was a New York Times bestseller. Quotes I want to believe that it is sometimes our greatest and most difficult pain that leads us to our lives' purpose. When the Stars Go Dark, A Conservation with Paula McLain April 22, 2021 Storytellers Studio, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmYkSujoUtU&pg=164s (quote at 2:44 of 29:51 in video}} ... A Moveable Feast. At the end of his memoir, Hemingway writes of Hadley Richardson Hadley, “I wished I had died before I loved anyone but her.” That line, and his portrayal of their marriage in his memoir—so poignant and steeped in regret—inspired me to first to read biographies of her, and then to write a novel, The Paris Wife, which tells the whole of their wildly romantic and ultimately tragic love story from her point of view. All the biographers agree that of Hemingway’s four wives and numerous conquests, Hadley’s the one who is changed for the better by knowing him. She blooms.When the two meet in 1920, Hadley’s a quiet, twenty-eight-year-old near-spinster. Her life has been difficult, strained by illness and death, and she’s all but given up on love and happiness. Ernest bowls her over with his aliveness and intensity. Though she can’t help but be anxious about his attractiveness to others, she takes the risk. An interview with Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife The Hemingway Project August 22, 2018 https://www.thehemingwayproject.com/2018/08/22/an-interview-with-paula-mclain-author-of-the-paris-wife/ Don’t try to impose your will on a book before you know what it is—or what it needs. Writing is a kind of trust exercise: you do the work, you show up again and again, and over time the story begins to meet you. It’s like standing at the edge of a clearing, palm open, trying to lure a wild animal out of the woods. Little by little, it creeps closer. And listen to your obsessions. Whatever you can’t stop thinking about—that’s your compass. as quoted by Robert Lee Brewer in: Paula McLain: Listen to Your Obsessions. In this interview, bestselling author Paula McLain discusses the moral questions at the center of her new historical novel, Skylark. Writer's Digest January 9, 20226 https://www.writersdigest.com/paula-mclain-listen-to-your-obsessions External links Category:1965 births Category:Living people Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Poets from California Category:University of Michigan alumni Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1960s