Paris Without End : The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife

“A bittersweet modern love
story [that] reads as easily as a novel.” —Vogue

“Fascinating. . . . A detailed,
grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.” —Newsday

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 à
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.

Gioia Diliberto is a journalist, biographer, and novelist. She is the author of the biographies Paris without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife, A Useful Woman: The Early Life of Jane Addams, and Debutante: The Story of Brenda Frazier and the novels I Am Madame X and The Collection. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Smithsonian, and Vanity Fair, and she is a visiting lecturer in writing at the Savannah College of Art and Design and DePaul University. She lives in Chicago.