Hadley: The First Mrs. Hemingway

By Alice Sokoloff

KIRKUS REVIEW Hadley was and is no Zelda. She was Ernest Hemingway's first wife and she existed chiefly by proxy -- contentedly submissive to both his tastes (whether skiing or bullfighting) and work... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0396067689
• ISBN13: 9780396067689
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Hemingway Screwed Up

Hadley was a first rate woman, who facilitated the growth of Ernest Hemingway into the first rate writer that he became. She was loyal and game and loved him despite his flaws. And she let him go, when he chose another. You will love this book and think far less of Hemingway and far far more of "The First Mrs. Hemingway."

Hadley Richardson

More needs to be written of this remarkable woman and of the impact she had on the developement of her first husband, Ernest Hemingway. When they first married, Hemingway was full of wild ambition, but had not accomplished anything of merit in the literary world. By the time they split in the mid 1920's, Hemingway had written The Sun Also Rises and was exploding onto the world's literary stage. I wished Alice Sokoloff wrote more of Hadley's years following her divorce from Hemingway, whereas many Hemingway buffs are already quite familiar with his years with Hadley in Paris.