Hadley Richardson

Hadley Richardson
Richardson with husband Ernest Hemingway and their son Jack in Schruns, Austria in 1926
Born
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson

(1891-11-09)November 9, 1891
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
DiedJanuary 22, 1979(1979-01-22) (aged 87)
Resting placeChocorua Cemetery, Tamworth, New Hampshire
NationalityAmerican
EducationBryn Mawr
OccupationPianist
Spouses
(m. 1921; div. 1927)
(m. 1933; died 1971)
ChildrenJack Hemingway

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (November 9, 1891 – January 22, 1979) was the first wife of American author Ernest Hemingway. The two married in 1921 after a courtship of less than a year, and moved to Paris within months of being married. In Paris, Hemingway pursued a writing career, and through him Richardson met other expatriate American and British writers.

In 1926, Richardson learned of Hemingway's affair with Pauline Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer had been Richardson's best friend and had lived and traveled with the Hemingways. Richardson divorced Hemingway in 1927. In 1933, Richardson married a second time, to journalist Paul Mowrer, whom she met in Paris.