[1] The death of her sister Dorothea in an apartment fire earlier that year may have contributed to Richardson's decision to leave college.

"[4] After her return from college, Richardson lived a restricted life—her sister and her mother continued to worry about her health—with little opportunity for physical activity or much of a social life.

[5] While visiting her friend, she enjoyed playing tennis, and she met Maxfield Parrish, but when her mother became worried over her well-being, she was forced to return home.

[6] While her mother became reclusive and immersed herself in spiritualism, Richardson spent some years attempting to attain a career as a pianist, until she abandoned music, believing she lacked talent.

"[9] They were married on September 3, 1921, in Bay Township, Michigan[10] and spent their honeymoon at the Hemingway family summer cottage on Walloon Lake.

"[14] In Paris, Richardson and Hemingway lived in a small apartment at 74, rue du Cardinal Lemoine in the Latin Quarter.

In the winter of 1921, he discovered the Shakespeare and Company bookshop, which also functioned as a lending library, and was run by American expatriate Sylvia Beach.

[17] It was during this trip, while waiting for a train at the Gare de Lyon, that Richardson misplaced and lost a suitcase filled with Hemingway's manuscripts.

[19] He was named for his mother Hadley and for the young Spanish matador Nicanor Villalta, who had impressed Hemingway the previous summer.

[20] The baby was healthy, and the birth quick; Hemingway missed it, as he had been sent to New York on assignment, and was returning on a train when his wife went into labor.

[21] In Toronto, the family lived in a small apartment on Bathurst Street with "wall space enough to hang their collection of paintings."

Bumby's christening was held at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in March with "Chink" Dorman-Smith and Gertrude Stein as godparents.

[23] In June, Richardson and Hemingway went again to Pamplona, leaving Bumby in Paris,[24] and that winter, they went for the first time to Austria to vacation in Schruns.

[26] When in June 1925 Hemingway and Richardson left Paris for their annual visit to Pamplona—the third year they had done so—they were accompanied by a group of American and British expatriates, including Pauline Pfeiffer.

[20] Among her many friends in Paris was Paul Mowrer, foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, whom she had met in the spring of 1927, not long after her divorce was finalized.

[37] Not long after the two married, they moved back to the U.S. to Lake Bluff, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago,[20][38] where they lived during World War II.

In July 1939, she and Mowrer ran into him while vacationing in Wyoming,[43] and, according to A. E. Hotchner, the last time Hemingway reported seeing Richardson was after a brief and spontaneous meeting in Paris.

The book, which is based on extensive research, including the author's exclusive access to a series of taped conversations with Richardson, was reissued in 2011 as Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife.

In 2011, a book titled The Paris Wife: A Novel by Paula McLain was published, telling the entire story of Hadley Richardson's relationship with Hemingway in "her voice.