The Paris Wife

Just started reading The Paris Wife-- I am rewarding myself with a chapter now and then between dissertating! It's a historical fiction based on Ernest Hemingway's first wife Hadley and their years in Paris in the 1920s. It would have been nice to have experienced Paris then-- I envision it as somewhat smaller and more intimate than the Paris of now (beautiful though it is).
Even though this is historical fiction, the author has based the character descriptions on Hadley's letters and documentation of their lives together.

Which begs the question-- what is the fine line between fact and fiction? She uses their real names, real locations, and incorporates real scenes from their lives- but has had to "make up stuff" to fill in the blanks. To what extent will this book become a "biography" of Hadley, when it is, in fact, historical fiction? Giess I can deal with those questions later.