Friday, January 2, 2015

A new book features the four wives of Ernest Hemingway.

BBC News - A new book features the four wives of Ernest Hemingway:
"Ernest Hemingway was married to four different women, for forty years of his life. Three of them were the author's mistress before becoming his wife. A fictionalised profile of the Nobel prize winner's wives has been made by author Naomi Wood. She met the BBC's Nick Higham to talk about her novel, Mrs Hemingway."

Ernest Hemingway: Four marriages, endless mistresses | Daily Mail Online:
Mrs Hemingway by Naomi Wood.

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story . . .

Paula McLain’s New York Times–bestselling novel piqued readers’ interest about Ernest Hemingway’s romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle’s bestseller The Women completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Naomi Wood’s Mrs. Hemingway tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary: each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong.

Told in four parts and based on real love letters and telegrams, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages. Spanning 1920s bohemian Paris through 1960s Cold War America, populated with members of the fabled "Lost Generation," Mrs. Hemingway is a riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak.

Naomi Wood was born in 1983 and lives in London. She studied at Cambridge and at UEA for her MA in Creative Writing. Originally from York, she has gone on to live in Hong Kong, Paris and Washington DC. She is the author of The Godless Boys and Mrs. Hemingway.

Talking Mrs Hemingway with Naomi Wood | Kate Braithwaite | Historical Novel Society:

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