Paris

Paris is a distracting city. It was so distracting, my first year there I could not write my novel. Everything Paris was, Oak Park, Chicago was not. I was working abroad for the Toronto Star, writing articles and sending them, often about my life. My articles “American Bohemians in Paris a Weird Lot” and “A Veteran Visits Old Front, Wishes He Had Stayed Away” sold papers. Hadley got pregnant, and we did move to Toronto for a spell, and then back to Paris. I wrote things. Fitzgerald became a close friend and mentor. My books were published. I wrote what I knew and what I thought. Fitzgerald especially liked The Sun Also Rises in 1926 (30).

Source:

Wagner-Martin, Linda. A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway. Oxford University Press: New York, 1999.