Hemingway had a reputation for independence and for being a starving writer who wrote his way out of poverty, whereas in fact his first two wives provided a cushy, financial berth. Hadley’s $ ...

Just before her train left, Hadley abandoned her luggage briefly to buy water. When she returned, the suitcase containing all of Hemingway’s fiction was gone. But what if it wasn’t?

Learn more about the women who married Ernest Hemingway - and who they were before and after their lives intersected with the famed author. Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first wife of Ernest ...

He was my friend.' Ernest Hemingway (far left), Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Richardson (Hemingway's first wife), Donald Ogden Stewart, and Pat Guthrie. Pamplona, Spain, circa 1925.