Books by Paula McLain
The Paris Wife
by Paula McLain
The book is a good corrective to the image Hemingway liked to portray of himself as a supreme writer who knew exactly what he was doing
Interviews where books by Paula McLain were recommended
The Best Historical Fiction About Real People, recommended by Louisa Treger
Historical fiction brings the past to life, while exploring the feelings as well as the facts. Here, the novelist Louisa Treger recommends five favourite historical novels based on people who really existed, sweeping us from ancient Rome to 1930s Switzerland and everything in between.
The best books on Hemingway in Paris, recommended by Wai Chee Dimock
Paris in the 1920s was a creative melting pot, the haunt of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. The Yale English professor gives us a feel for what it was like to be there