![]() Critics continue to argue about which edition would be truer to Hemingway’s heart. In 2009 Hemingway’s grandson Sean (through his second wife, Pauline), published the “Restored Edition” of “A Moveable Feast,” deleting parts that were unflattering to his mother and adding chapters that had been removed. ![]() Three years after his suicide in 1961 his then wife Mary edited and published that memoir, sans apology to Richardson it was called “A Moveable Feast.” He began stitching together a memoir that included a long apology to Richardson and was itself full of nostalgia and regret. Hemingway himself found these years fascinating - in 1956, thirty years after his marriage to Richardson had ended, the author found an old trunk full of notebooks from that time in storage at the Paris Ritz. She tells the story of their years together 1920-27. Witness the sudden rise on bestseller lists across the country of “The Paris Wife,” Paula McLain’s novel narrated by the first of Hemingway’s four wives, Hadley Richardson. ![]() The fascination with Ernest Hemingway’s years in Paris in the early 1920s seems to never die. ![]()
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