After plumbing the downtown library's stacks to make sure her idea was original, McLain dashed off an email to her agent. Why not re-imagine the story of the woman who knew Hemingway before he was famous? She knew the idea was marketable her biggest fear was that someone else had already written it. "I wanted her to step out of the shadows of literary history and tell her story." "Hemingway's rendering of Hadley is so tender and regretful, yet she is largely unknown," McLain recently told an audience at the Cleveland Public Library. "I wish I had died before I loved anyone but her," Hemingway writes in his memoir - yet his "Paris wife" takes up only a few scant pages. The idea of writing "A Moveable Feast" from Hadley's perspective struck her like a lightning bolt one day while driving. Paula McLain was a critically acclaimed yet obscure writer eking out a living as an adjunct professor at John Carroll when she had the idea for "The Paris Wife," a novel about Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley Richardson, set in 1920s Paris.
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