The Paris Wife is a 2011 historical fiction novel by Paula McLain which became a New York Times Bestseller.

McLain decided to write from Hadley's perspective after reading A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's 1964 posthumously published account of his early years in Paris.

They marry and move to Paris soon afterwards, where Hemingway befriends Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce.

The Paris Wife was popular with readers, and "shot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list soon after its release in 2011.

"[2] Author Helen Simonson praised the book for "its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds—poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships—to cling on to each other".