Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first wife of Ernest Hemingway. Falling in love with Hemingway, she said, was a “great explosion into life.” Pauline Pfeiffer was a journalist and the ...

It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway took his own life. Buy Ernest and his wife, Mary, and I stayed in touch for the next eight months. That was the beginning ...