Paula McLain
Internationally bestselling author Paula McLain is a popular speaker for community reads programs, literary series and writing programs where she blends her skills as a storyteller with her historical research to create unique lectures. Read Full BiographyBooks by Paula McLain:
The Paris Wife
"...Bravery is required in writing a novel that channels a giant of American literature. Yet McLain pulls it off convincingly, conveying Hemingway's interior life and his profound struggles." -Newsday
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Creating Fiction from Real Life Characters
Recreating 1920’s Paris and what it was like to write about—and in the voice of—literary legends.
Writing Women's Lives
The role of literary spouses in the 1920s Paris of A Moveable Feast, and the extent to which Hadley helped shape Ernest Hemingway’s literary career
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