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: : : : : Zack; : : : : I don't think Hemingway and Pauline ever lived in Alabama, or Arkansas. Maybe they drove through a lot on trips west from Florida to visit her family. Her family was wealthy, owned a cosmetics firm and lived in Arkansas (?? someone correct me on that). Pauline was working as a fashion magazine reporter in Paris when she met Hemingway. She lured him away from Hadley, his first wife, and they married in Paris and moved to Key West, Florida. They had two sons, Patrick and Gregory, and finished out the 20's and went well into the 30's in Key West. That's where they lived when he wrote "A Farewell to Arms" and became a literary name. In the late 30's he was easily taken away from Pauline by a younger and prettier writer (who just died in '98) named : : : : Martha Gellhorn. After a time in Spain covering the civil war, they ended up living in Havana. : : : : EdG : : : In the South there is a house that is open to the public. I forget whether it is Arkansas or Alabama. In this house, Hemingway is reputed to have done a lot of serious writing. It is said Hemingway did not like the muggy weather there. This conflicts with your own statements above, that Hemingway neither lived there nor that he wrote there. This was printed in a newspaper, so it may have some veracity? : : : I think you are right on the other information about Pauline. I'm still curious as to why Hemingway left Pauline. Did he ever speak on this subject? In his short stories he portrayed a beautiful, "dangerous" woman on safari. He portrayed rich women. Were these based on Pauline or on the blond he married for a brief time? Zack : : The Pfeiffers, the family of Hemingway's second wife, were from : : Piggott, Arkansas, but Hemingway never liked the place very much. : : "Having sent Pauline on ahead by train, Hemingway drove the yellow Ford : : to Arkansas in the midst of a brutal heat wave [this would be in the : : late 20's, '28, '29?]. Aside from the droll stories told by Pauline's : : mother about the scandalous doings of local folks, there was nothing : : in Piggott that pleased him. Quail hunting was out of season, the heat : : wave was relentless, and he found no graceful way of withdrawing from family : : get-togethers so that he could get on with his novel." Kenneth Lynn : : hth : : Pjk : : : Hemingway was a man of contrasts. While he put himself through arduous adventures, he was also somewhat of a hedonist. Faulkner could take these relentless heat waves and turn them into art, while Hemingway would rather move on to the cooler breezes of the islands. : I suspect Pauline's family may have been a bit too much for him. Also, the South of that time may have had a social structure that Hemingway, hailing from Michigan, couldn't decipher. It may have been difficult for him to get away from the family. Conversely, Pauline's family may have been too similar to his own family, from which he was always seemingly in flight. Zack

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