In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway lived as an expatriate in Paris. He moved there with his first wife, Hadley Richardson, in 1921 and worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star.
Paris placed Hemingway inside the international artistic community later associated with the Lost Generation. He met or socialized with writers and artists including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Pablo Picasso. The city’s cafés, bookshops, salons, and expatriate circles became an important part of his early literary development.
Hemingway’s Paris years also shaped his memoir A Moveable Feast, published after his death in 1964. His first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, grew out of experiences shared by expatriates traveling from Paris to Spain. Readers sometimes confuse Paris with Key West or Havana, two other places strongly linked to Hemingway, but those became important settings later in his life.