Paula McLain

Paula McLain (* 1965 in Fresno ) is an American writer.

Life

Paula McLain was born in Fresno, California . Abandoned by her parents, she and her two sisters were placed under the guardianship of the California court system and lived in multiple foster families for the next 14 years. She later processed these experiences in the memory book Like Family, Growing up in Other People's Houses . Before turning to writing, she financed her life as a nurse, pizza delivery boy, car factory worker, and bartender. In 1996 she graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry .

Paula McLain is a fellow from Yaddo , the McDowell Colony, the Ohio Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts . Her novel, The Paris Wife, about Ernest Hemingway's first wife , was on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 34 languages.

She lives in Cleveland with her family .

Works

• Like Family: Growing up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir.
• A ticket to ride.
• The Paris Wife.
  • Madame Hemingway. German by Yasemin Dinçer, construction, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-351-03358-3
• Circling the Sun.
  • Lady Africa. German by Yasemin Dinçer, construction, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03619-5
• Love and ruin.
  • Hemingway & me. Martha Gellhorn's great love German by Yasemin Dinçer, construction, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-03745-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Paula McLain in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paula McLain's website