Paris Without End

The only full biography of Hadley Richardson and the groundbreaking true story behind Hemingway’s classic tale of young love, A Moveable Feast.

Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of  Paris in the twenties, the center of an expatriate community boasting  the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein and Alice B.  Toklas, and James and Nora Joyce.

In this haunting account of the young Hemingways, Gioia  Diliberto explores their passionate courtship, their family life in  Paris with baby Bumby, and their thrilling, adventurous relationship – a  literary love story scarred by Hadley’s loss of the only copy of  Hemingway’s first novel and ultimately destroyed by a devastating ménage  at trois on the French Riviera.

Compelling, illuminating, poignant, and deeply insightful,  Paris Without End provides a rare, intimate glimpse of the writer who so  fully captured the American imagination and the remarkable woman who  inspired his passion and his art – the only woman Hemingway never  stopped loving.

Read Gioia’s Op-Ed on the 50th anniversary of Hemingway’s suicide: A Marriage Unraveled.