As a "career girl" - a new concept at the time - Pfeiffer was ambitious, curious and possessed a great editorial eye, which she utilized when giving feedback on drafts of Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises.Ĭonsidered the most reviled of Hemingway's wives, Pfeiffer has been referred to as the "devil in Dior" as well as a "determined terrier" who was set on snatching Hemingway from his kind-hearted first wife. Unlike Richardson, Pfeiffer came from a very wealthy family and had a flair for fashion, sporting the latest trends while living in a chic Parisian flat off the Right Bank. Pauline 'Fife' Pfeiffer, Hemingway's second wifeīorn in 1895 in Iowa, Pauline "Fife" Pfeiffer was an accomplished journalist who wrote for Vogue in Paris. Hemingway would later romanticize his marriage with Richardson in his novel, A Moveable Feast. By that spring, Hemingway and Pfeiffer were married.
The arguments between the couple began to grow, and that fall, she asked for a divorce, which was finalized in January 1927. “It would be a swell joke on tout-le-monde if you & Fife & I spent the summer at Juan-les-Pins,” Richardson wrote to Hemingway in the spring of 1926, knowing by then that he and Fife were having an affair.īut Richardson couldn't play third wheel for long. Richardson and Pfeiffer became such close friends that the former had the younger woman accompany her and Hemingway on vacation. Within a year of their return, they met a young, savvy journalist, Pauline "Fife" Pfeiffer, who would become Hemingway's second wife. Around this time, Richardson gave birth to their son, Jack, whom they nicknamed "Bumby."īored with journalism, Hemingway longed to return to Paris to focus on his writing, and so the family of three found their way back to the City of Lights. Living off of Richardson's modest trust fund, the couple lived in Paris for about two years before moving to Toronto, where Hemingway worked for the Toronto Star. In less than a year, the couple married and took off to Paris, encountering a who's who of famous writers such as James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Added to that, she reminded Hemingway of the nurse he fell in love with while recuperating from his battle wounds during World War I. While her appearance was unremarkable, she made up for it in sensuality.
When Richardson and Hemingway met at a party in Chicago in 1920, the two had instant chemistry, despite Richardson being eight years his senior. Her father, who had worked in the pharmaceutical industry, had committed suicide in 1903 - the same fate that would end Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway with his first wife, Hadley Richardson Photo: Ernest Hemingway Collectionīorn in 1891 in Missouri, Hadley Richardson was a gifted musician who spent most of her 20s taking care of her ailing mother.
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