Occupation novelist, Name Paula McLain Nationality American Role Author | Genre Literary fiction Education University of Michigan Notable works The Paris Wife | |
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Awards Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Favorite Book, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Goodreads Author Books The Paris Wife, Like Family: Growing, Stumble - Gorgeous, Less of Her, Circling the Sun: A Novel Similar People Hadley Richardson, Beryl Markham, Denys Finch Hatton, Meg Waite Clayton, Ernest Hemingway Profiles | ||
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Paula McLain (born 1965) is an American author best known for her novel, The Paris Wife, a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's first marriage which became a long-time New York Times bestseller. She has published two collections of poetry, a memoir about growing up in the foster system, and the novel A Ticket to Ride.
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- Video paula mclain cleveland author of the paris wife reads at cpl
- Paula McLain on her newest novel Love and Ruin
- Biography
- References
Paula McLain on her newest novel, "Love and Ruin"
Biography
McLain was born in 1965 in Fresno, California. Her mother vanished when she was four, and her father was in and out of jail, leaving McLain and her sisters (one older, one younger) moving in and out of various foster homes for the next fourteen years, an ordeal described "with a dispassionate grace that puts a human face, actually three human faces, on the alarming statistics" in her memoir, Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses When she aged out of the system, she supported herself by working in various jobs before discovering she could write. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has been a resident of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as the recipient of fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Cleveland with her family.
