Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage

Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage

Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage

Name/Title

Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage

Entry/Object ID

813.52 HAW

Description

It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley among a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline grew close to Hadley but eventually forged a stronger bond with Hemingway himself; with her stylish looks and dedication to Hemingway's writing, Pauline became the source of "unbelievable happiness" for Hemingway and, by 1927, his second wife. Pauline was her husband's best editor and critic, and her wealthy family provided moral and financial support, including the conversion of an old barn to a dedicated writing studio at the family home in Piggott, Arkansas. The marriage lasted thirteen years, some of Hemingway's most productive, and the couple had two children. But the "unbelievable happiness" met with "final sorrow," as Hemingway wrote, and Pauline would be the second of Hemingway's four wives. Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow paints a full picture of Pauline and the role she played in Ernest Hemingway's becoming one of our greatest literary figures.

Collection

Library Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Book Details

Author

Hawkins, Ruth A.

Edition

First

Date Published

2012

Binding

Binding Type

Hardcover or Case Bound

Publication Language

English

Call No.

813.52 HAW

ISBN

978-1-55728-974-2

Condition

Reason for Exam

At Acquisition

Overall Condition

Excellent