Edna O’Brien, from interviews in Episode 1 of Hemingway Ernest Hemingway and first wife, Hadley Richardson, in Chamby, Switzerland, 1922. Credit: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy ...

When Hemingway saw his first bullfight in Pamplona in 1923, he brought his wife Hadley along because he hoped the event would have a positive influence on the unborn son she then carried.

Hemingway had a reputation for independence and for being a starving writer who wrote his way out of poverty, whereas in fact his first two wives provided a cushy, financial berth. Hadley’s $ ...