What is the title of Ernest Hemingway's posthumous memoir about his years in 1920s Paris?
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A Moveable Feast
Answer
A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway’s posthumous memoir about his years in 1920s Paris is A Moveable Feast. The book describes his early life as a struggling writer, his first marriage to Hadley Richardson, and his encounters with figures of the Lost Generation.
Hemingway wrote the memoir mainly from notes and memories recovered from two trunks stored at the Hôtel Ritz Paris. He rediscovered those notebooks in 1956 and worked on the manuscript between 1957 and 1960. His death in 1961 delayed publication.
Mary Hemingway, his widow, edited the first edition, which Scribner’s published on May 5, 1964. The memoir includes portraits of writers and artists such as Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford, alongside scenes in cafés, bookstores, and Paris streets.
Readers sometimes encounter the title Paris est une fête, the French translation, and the 2009 Restored Edition, edited by Hemingway’s grandson Seán Hemingway. These are related editions or translations, not different memoirs. The title’s “moveable” wording is a pun on a feast day whose date changes.
Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026