Hadley Richardson

Hadley Richardson

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (November 9, 1891 – January 22, 1979) married writer Ernest Hemingway in 1921. She was born the youngest daughter to a St. Louis family. After Hadley fell out of a window as a child, her mother became overprotective and curtailed her activities from then on. As a young adult, Hadley nursed her mother during an illness that led to her death; a few months later she met Ernest Hemingway. They were married after a courtship of less than a year.

The couple moved to Paris within months of being married. In Paris, Hemingway pursued a writing career, and with him Hadley met other expatriate British and American writers. The two traveled throughout Europe. Their son, John Nicanor Hemingway, was born in Toronto in 1923.

In 1925 Hadley learned Hemingway was involved with another woman, Pauline Pfeiffer, and she divorced him the following year. In 1933 Hadley married a second time, to journalist Paul Mowrer, whom she met in Paris.